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Author : George Grove
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385474299
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : George Grove
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Harvey Sachs
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812969073
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its unveiling—yet it became a standard for subsequent generations of creative artists, and its composer came to embody the Romantic cult of genius. In this unconventional, provocative book, Beethoven’s masterwork becomes a prism through which we may view the politics, aesthetics, and overall climate of the era. Part biography, part history, part memoir, The Ninth brilliantly explores the intricacies of Beethoven’s last symphony—how it brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity.
Author : George Grove
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780483175525
Excerpt from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Choral The Symphony starts in an entirely different man ner from any other of the nine, with a prologue which is not an introduction, properly speaking, and yet introduces the principal subject of the move ment. The tempo is the same from the beginning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Benjamin Levy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780300099645
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, a masterpiece that has influenced virtually every Western composer since its premiere, has become associated with the marking of momentous public occasions. In 1989, Chinese students played its finale through loudspeakers in Tiananmen Square, and Leonard Bernstein led a performance in Berlin to celebrate the razing of the Berlin Wall. This lively and up-to-date book focuses on Beethoven's Ninth, exploring the cultural and musical meanings that surround this powerful work of genius. David B. Levy sets the scene with a brief survey of nineteenth-century Germanic culture and society, then analyzes the Ninth symphony in detail with special emphasis on the famous choral finale. He discusses the initial performances in 1824 under Beethoven's direction and traces the symphony's critical reception and legacy. In the final chapter of the book, Levy examines interpretations of the work by prominent conductors, including Wagner, Mahler, and Weingartner. A fully annotated discography of selected recordings completes this comprehensive volume.
Author : George Grove
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104622015
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Donald Francis Tovey
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Symphony
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Author : Ernst Ortlepp
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Esteban Buch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226078243
Who hasn't been stirred by the strains of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? That's a good question, claims Esteban Buch. German nationalists and French republicans, communists and Catholics have all, in the course of history, embraced the piece. It was performed under the direction of Leonard Bernstein at a concert to mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, yet it also serves as a ghastly and ironic leitmotif in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. Hitler celebrated his birthdays with it, and the government of Rhodesia made it their anthem. And played in German concentration camps by the imprisoned, it also figured prominently at Mitterand's 1981 investiture. In his remarkable history of one of the most popular symphonic works of the modern period, Buch traces such complex and contradictory uses—and abuses—of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony since its premier in 1824. Buch shows that Beethoven consciously drew on the tradition of European political music, with its mix of sacred and profane, military and religious themes, when he composed his symphony. But while Beethoven obviously had his own political aspirations for the piece—he wanted it to make a statement about ideal power—he could not have had any idea of the antithetical political uses, nationalist and universalist, to which the Ninth Symphony has been put since its creation. Buch shows us how the symphony has been "deployed" throughout nearly two centuries, and in the course of this exploration offers what was described by one French reviewer as "a fundamental examination of the moral value of art." Sensitive and fascinating, this account of the tangled political existence of a symphony is a rare book that shows the life of an artwork through time, shifted and realigned with the currents of history.
Author : Claude Debussy
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486244415
Complete scores of three orchestral favorites by vastly influential modern composer. Innovation, texture, shimmering impressionism. Reprinted from early French editions. New Contents, Glossary of French musical terms.