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- Type
- Novel
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- America
- Inscribed
- No
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- Young Adults, Adults
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- ISBN
- 9780198165989
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198165986
ISBN-13
9780198165989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1655617
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beethoven
Number of Pages
426 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music
Book Series
Master Musicians Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
29.3 Oz
Item Length
6.3 in
Item Width
9.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-269544
Reviews
"Cooper has produced a comprehensive and valuable reference source.... In addition to the sizeable bibliography, a detailed list of Beethoven's compositions, a few illustrations and numerous musical examples, there is a 'calendar'...giving a year-by-year summary of Beethoven's activity against a backdrop of other events in the world of music, and there is also a very useful 'personalia' listing more than a hundred individuals of significance in Beethoven's life, with concise but pertinent background."--Richard Freed, The Washington Post"Barry Cooper has crafted a thoroughly refreshing and reliable new biography for the 21st century. He seamlessly recounts the story of Beethoven's life and music with clarity and vigour, avoiding both hero worship and hostile attempts to tumble the composer from some imaginary throne. Cautious where caution is warranted yet perfectly willing to hypothesize, Cooper sets just the right tone in reporting and reflecting on modern Beethoven scholarship." --William R. Meredith, Director, The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (www.sjsu.edu/depts/Beethoven), "Cooper has produced a comprehensive and valuable reference source...In addition to the sizeable bibliography, a detailed list of Beethoven's compositions, a few illustrations and numerous musical examples, there is a 'calendar'...giving a year-by-year summary of Beethoven's activity against a backdrop of other events in the world of music, and there is also a very useful 'personalia' listing more than a hundred individuals of significance in Beethoven's life, with concise but pertinent background."--Richard Freed, The Washington Post "Barry Cooper has crafted a thoroughly refreshing and reliable new biography for the 21st century. He seamlessly recounts the story of Beethoven's life and music with clarity and vigour, avoiding both hero worship and hostile attempts to tumble the composer from some imaginary throne. Cautious where caution is warranted yet perfectly willing to hypothesize, Cooper sets just the right tone in reporting and reflecting on modern Beethoven scholarship."--William R. Meredith, Director, The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (www.sjsu.edu/depts/Beethoven), 'here for the first time we get a sense of how happily the composerimmersed himself in folksong arrangements.'BBC Music Magazine, "Cooper has produced a comprehensive and valuable reference source...In addition to the sizeable bibliography, a detailed list of Beethoven's compositions, a few illustrations and numerous musical examples, there is a 'calendar'...giving a year-by-year summary of Beethoven's activity against a backdrop of other events in the world of music, and there is also a very useful 'personalia' listing more than a hundred individuals of significance in Beethoven's life, with concise but pertinent background."--Richard Freed,The Washington Post "Barry Cooper has crafted a thoroughly refreshing and reliable new biography for the 21st century. He seamlessly recounts the story of Beethoven's life and music with clarity and vigour, avoiding both hero worship and hostile attempts to tumble the composer from some imaginary throne. Cautious where caution is warranted yet perfectly willing to hypothesize, Cooper sets just the right tone in reporting and reflecting on modern Beethoven scholarship."--William R. Meredith, Director, The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (www.sjsu.edu/depts/Beethoven), 'Cooper moves ultra-cautiously through the disputed biographical territories, but emerges with a number of new insights.'BBC Music Magazine, "Cooper has produced a comprehensive and valuable reference source.... In addition to the sizeable bibliography, a detailed list of Beethoven's compositions, a few illustrations and numerous musical examples, there is a 'calendar'...giving a year-by-year summary of Beethoven's activity against a backdrop of other events in the world of music, and there is also a very useful 'personalia' listing more than a hundred individuals of significance in Beethoven's life, with concise but pertinent background."--Richard Freed, The Washington Post "Barry Cooper has crafted a thoroughly refreshing and reliable new biography for the 21st century. He seamlessly recounts the story of Beethoven's life and music with clarity and vigour, avoiding both hero worship and hostile attempts to tumble the composer from some imaginary throne. Cautious where caution is warranted yet perfectly willing to hypothesize, Cooper sets just the right tone in reporting and reflecting on modern Beethoven scholarship." --William R. Meredith, Director, The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies (www.sjsu.edu/depts/Beethoven), 'Cooper moves ultra-cautiously through the disputed biographicalterritories, but emerges with a number of new insights.'BBC Music Magazine, 'here for the first time we get a sense of how happily the composer immersed himself in folksong arrangements.'BBC Music Magazine
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
780.92
Table Of Content
PrefaceYoung Genius (1770-83)Adolescence (1784-9)Farewell to Bonn (1790-2)The Conquest of Vienna (1792-5)Wider Horizons (1796-8)First Quartets and First Symphony (1799-80)Hope and Despair (1801-2)After Heiligenstadt (1802-3)L'amour conjugal (1804-6)A Cluster of Masterpieces (1806-8)Financial Security? (1809-10)Immortal Beloved (1811-12)The Political Phase (1813-15)Declining Productivity (1815-17)Gigantism (1818-20)Completion of the Mass (1820-2)Completion of the Ninth (1822-4)End of an Era (1824-7)Appendices:Select BibliographyIndex
Synopsis
This major new study of Beethoven and his music is written as a single, continuous narrative, using a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged. The result is a much closer integration of life and works than is often achieved. The approach works particularly well for Beethoven for two reasons. Firstly, composition was his central preoccupation for most of his life: 'I live entirely in my music', he once wrote. Secondly, recent study of his large numbers of musical sketches has enabled a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously possible, leading to many new insights into the interaction between his life and music. The volume concentrates on Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by commentary on some of their most striking and original features. Statements in earlier biographies have been treated with caution, and have been accepted only where they are supported by sound evidence. Everythingeven down to the translations of individual German wordshas been reassessed as far as is feasible, in an effort to avoide recycling old errors. Many well-known but fictitious anecdotes have thereby been eliminated, while conversely numerous details discovered in recent years have been incorporated into a general Beethoven biography for the first timenotably information derived from sketch studies and from a new edition for correspondence. This volume reaches many fresh conclusions that should be of interest to both specialists and the general musical public., The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven, however, the standard approach has been to treat his life and his art separately. Now, Barry Cooper's new volume incorporates the latest international research on many aspects of the composer's life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative. Cooper employs a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged. The result is a much closer confluence of life and work than is usually achieved, for two reasons. First, composition was Beethoven's central preoccupation for most of his life: "I live entirely in my music," he once wrote. Second, recent study of his many musical sketches has enabled a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously possible, leading to rich new insights into the interaction between his life and music. This volume concentrates on Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by expert commentary on some of their most striking and original features. It also reexamines virtually all the evidence--from fictitious anecdotes right down to the translations of individual German words--to avoid recycling old errors. And it offers numerous new details derived from sketch studies and a new edition of Beethoven's correspondence. Offering a wealth of fresh conclusions and intertwining life and work in illuminating ways, Beethoven will establish itself as the reference on one of the world's greatest composers.
LC Classification Number
ML410.B4C738 2000
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- 9***m (147)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseThe book’s condition was less than expected. Rita’s lovely not made the book’s appearance more bearable. However, when I sat down to read with my son, the front pages fell out. After the initial shock, we’ve persevered and are enjoying the rest of the book.
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