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Author:   Michael Spitzer ,  Michael Spitzer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   1.302kg
ISBN:  

9781472440303

ISBN 10:   1472440307
Pages:   552
Publication Date:   28 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Introduction. Part I History and Historiography: The biographical method, Carl Dahlhaus; Beethoven's hero, Scott Burnham; 'Late', last, and least: on being Beethoven's Quartet in F Major, Op. 135, K.M. Knittel; Beethoven before 1800: the Mozart legacy, Lewis Lockwood; Beethoven and the London pianoforte school, Alexander L. Ringer; New roads to old ideas in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Warren Kirkendale. Part II Documents and Sketches: Beethoven's birth year, Maynard Solomon; Das 'Heiligenstadter Testament' im Licht der Freimaurerei. Beethovens 'letzter Wille' als ein Beweis fur seine Zugehoerigkeit zur Logenbruderschaft?, Hans-Werner Kuthen; New light on Beethoven's letter to an unknown woman, Maynard Solomon; Conversations with Beethoven, Alan Tyson; Beethoven's understanding of 'sonata form': the evidence of the sketchbooks, William Drabkin; Beethoven's Sixth Symphony: sketches for the first movement, Philip Gossett; Plans for the structure of the String Quartet in C Sharp Minor Op. 131, Robert Winter. Part III Analysis: Tovey's Beethoven, Joseph Kerman; A case study for interpretation: the Third Movement of Op. 106 (Hammerklavier), Robert S. Hatten; Form as the process of becoming: the Beethoven-Hegelian tradition and the 'Tempest' Sonata, Janet Schmalfeldt; The significance of recapitulation in Beethoven's 'Waldstein' Sonata, Michael Spitzer; Beethoven's experiments in composition: the late bagatelles, Edward T. Cone. Part IV Aesthetics and Hermeneutics: Adorno's diagnosis of Beethoven's late style: early symptom of a fatal condition, Rose Rosengard Subotnik; Beethoven and romantic irony, Rey M. Longyear; Beethoven's 'Orpheus in Hades': the andante con moto of the Fourth Piano Concerto, Owen Jander; Beethoven and masculinity, Sanna Pederson; Resisting the Ninth, Richard Taruskin; Beethoven's myth sympathy: Hollywood's re-construction, Holly Rogers. Name index.

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Michael Spitzer is Professor of Music and Head of the School of Music at the University of Liverpool, UK Carl Dahlhaus, Scott Burnham, K.M. Knittel, Lewis Lockwood, Alexander L. Ringer, Warren Kirkendale, Maynard Solomon, Hans-Werner Kuthen, Alan Tyson, William Drabkin, Philip Gossett, Robert Winter, Joseph Kerman, Robert S. Hatten, Janet Schmalfeldt, Edward T. Cone, Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Rey M. Longyear, Owen Jander, Sanna Pederson, Richard Taruskin, Holly Rogers.

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