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Author: Theodore Albrecht (Person) ,
Theodore Albrecht
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint: The Boydell Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.750kg
ISBN: 9781783271528
ISBN 10: 1783271523
Pages: 459
Publication Date: 17 July 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is going to send everybody scurrying to revise biographical concepts about Beethoven...the conversation books are going to be a game-changer...these 'compelling conversations' will finally allow English-speaking music lovers to hear what Beethoven and his friends were discussing. * THE OBSERVER * This is absolutely fascinating. John Suchet, * CLASSIC FM * Featured in the10 must-read books for Beethoven 250, * BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE * Just how deaf was Beethoven? As the 250th-anniversary year of the German composer's birth gathers pace, a leading music scholar has given this often debated matter an added twist. * BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE * A brilliantly accessible piece of scholarship. . . . As they flash from scene to scene, with a huge cast of characters taking turns in the spotlight, these extraordinary little books read like a film script, with a laconic but massive presence at its heart. It's a goldmine for music historians, and a riveting saga for the rest of us. -- Michael Church * BBC Music Magazine * The publication of the third volume of this much-hoped-for series of the surviving conversation books in English is very much to be welcomed, coming as it does hot on the heels of volumes 1 and 2. . . . Overall the volumes are a very salutary corrective of the oft-encountered heroic narratives of Beethoven's life, especially in the way they illustrate the more mundane and human preoccupations and activities of the great composer. The Boydell Press are again much to be thanked for their involvement in the publication of these fascinating documents. Vol. 4 is eagerly anticipated. -- Thomas Cooper * The Consort *
This is going to send everybody scurrying to revise biographical concepts about Beethoven...the conversation books are going to be a game-changer...these compelling conversations will finally allow English-speaking music lovers to hear what Beethoven and his friends were discussing. THE OBSERVER This is absolutely fascinating. John Suchet, CLASSIC FM
Author Information
THEODORE ALBRECHT, Professor Emeritus of Music at Kent State University, Ohio, is an award-winning Beethoven scholar. He has authored many important articles on the composer and is the editor of Letters to Beethoven and Other Correspondence (1996) as well as translator and editor of Beethoven's Conversation Books (Boydell Press).
