Mark Evan Bonds

Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout his life, Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. He approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he assumed and projected through his music. Discarding tired myths about the composer, this introduction to the composer proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 112mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9780190051730
• ISBN-10: 0190051736
• Artikelnr.: 62535511

Autorenporträt

Mark Evan Bonds is the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1992. A former editor-in-chief of Beethoven Forum, he has written widely on the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Scowl
2. The Life
3. Ideals
4. Deafness
5. Love
6. Money
7. Politics
8. Composing
9. Early-Middle-Late
10. The Music
11. "Beethoven"
References
Further Reading
Index