BeethovenSet in the framework of Beethoven's life, William Kinderman's detailed examination of the music traces the composer's intellectual and musical development, from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets. Beethoven's innovations in form and style, his musicalsymbolism and narrative structures are illustrated in analyses of all the main works, showing that the deepening of his musical thought was a continuous process throughout his life. William Kinderman also shows how Beethoven's response to the political and philosophical currents of his time isreflected in some of his greatest masterpieces. Although the implications of Beethoven's deafness and other personal crises are fully addressed, so too are the lighter aspects of his personality - his humour, his love of puns, and his delight in juxtaposing the exalted and the commonplace. Combining musical insight and the most recent research, Beethoven is both a portrait of the man and a guide to his music. |
Contents
The Bonn Years | 15 |
The Path to Mastery 17921798 | 28 |
Crisis and Creativity 17991802 | 51 |
The Heroic Style I 18031806 | 86 |
The Heroic Style II 18061809 | 100 |
Consolidation 18101812 | 139 |
The Congress of Vienna Period 18131815 | 167 |
The Hammerklavier Sonata 18161818 | 189 |
Struggle 18191822 | 211 |
Triumph 18221824 | 238 |
The Galitzin Quartets 18241825 | 284 |
The Last Phase 18261827 | 308 |
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Common terms and phrases
Adagio aesthetic Allegretto Allegro con brio Andante Antonie Brentano Archduke Trio Arietta artistic ascending bars bass Beethoven's music beginning Bonn C# minor cadence cadenza cantabile character choral finale chord climax close coda composer composition context contrast Credo crese descending Diabelli Variations diminished-seventh dissonant dolce dominant earlier Eb major ensuing Eroica Eroica Symphony expressive F major Fidelio foreshadowing fortissimo fugal fugue gesture Grosse Fuge Hammerklavier Sonata harmonic Haydn Horn later Ludwig van Beethovens lyrical main theme melodic ment Missa solemnis molto motif motivic Mozart narrative Ninth Symphony Oboe octaves opening Allegro orchestral Overture passage pedal phrase Piano Sonata Piano Sonata op pieces pitch Presto recapitulation relationship rhythm rhythmic rondo scherzo Schiller's semitone sempre Sketchbook sketches slow introduction slow movement sonata form song sonority String Quartet structure symbolic tempo tension texture Thayer-Forbes thematic tion tonal tonic trill trio troppo Vienna violin vivace