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Umfang: 1 online resource (384 p.) : , 11 color plates, 37 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tables

ISBN: 9780226818368 , 9783110993899

Inhalt: Using a replica of Beethoven's Erard piano, scholar and performer Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of Beethoven's work. In 1803 Beethoven acquired a French piano from the Erard Frères workshop in Paris. The composer was "so enchanted with it," one visitor reported, "that he regards all the pianos made here as rubbish by comparison." While Beethoven loved its sound, the touch of the French keyboard was much heavier than that of the Viennese pianos he had been used to. Hoping to overcome this drawback, he commissioned a local technician to undertake a series of revisions, with ultimately disappointing results. Beethoven set aside the Erard piano for good in 1810. Beethoven's French Piano returns the reader to this period of Beethoven's enthusiasm for all things French. What traces of the Erard's presence can be found in piano sonatas like his "Waldstein" and "Appassionata"? To answer this question, Tom Beghin worked with a team of historians and musicians to commission the making of an accurate replica of the Erard piano. As both a scholar and a recording artist, Beghin is uniquely positioned to guide us through this key period of Beethoven's work. Whether buried in archives, investigating the output of the French pianists who so fascinated Beethoven, or seated at the keyboard of his Erard, Beghin thinks and feels his way into the mind of the composer, bringing startling new insights into some of the best-known piano compositions of all time.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , ILLUSTRATIONS -- , ABBREVIATIONS -- , PREFACE -- , Introduction. Parallel Tales -- , 1. Aspirations and Entanglements -- , Vignette 1. The Letter -- , Introduction -- , 2. The Psychology of Waiting -- , 3. Malleability of Tone -- , 4. The Lure of una corda -- , Vignette 2. Two Visitors in Paris -- , Introduction -- , 5. The Perfect Instrument -- , 6. An Unlikely Competitor -- , 7. Continuous Sound -- , Vignette 3. A Gift Not a Given -- , Introduction -- , 8. The Vertical/Horizontal Paradox -- , 9. A Grand Sonata -- , 10. A Prize- Winning Teacher -- , Vignette 4. Building a Replica -- , Introduction -- , 11. Revisiting the Revisions -- , 12. Mixing Sound -- , Epilogue. Time and Resonance -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , APPENDIX A. Beethoven's Erard: A Timeline -- , APPENDIX B. Op. 53, 54, and 57: A Timeline -- , NOTES -- , BIBLIOGRAPHY -- , INDEX , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780226818351

Sprache: Englisch

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226818368

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Umfang: xxi, 410 Seiten , Diagramme, Faksimiles, Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele

ISBN: 9780226818351

Inhalt: "In this book, Tom Beghin examines the French piano Beethoven famously acquired from the Erard firm in Paris in 1803. The Erard piano is one of only three extant instruments belonging to Beethoven and is housed in a museum in Austria. Beghin argues that the piano sonatas Beethoven composed between 1803 and 1810-including the "Waldstein" and the "Appassionata"-show the influence of the new French style of pianism and of the Erard in particular, specifically in the uses of tremolo, legato, and the "una corda" pedal, which softens dramatically the volume. Beghin shows that Beethoven was guided by a search for new sonorities and that the specific "touch" provided by the Erard's technology helped to point him toward new compositional horizons, especially at a time when he was forced to withdraw from performance due to his increasing deafness. The book combines informed historical analysis of the musical milieus in Vienna and Paris with the author's own experiments at the keyboard in order to reconstruct the specific techniques that Beethoven was exploiting and the ways they translated into his innovative piano writing"--

Anmerkung: Includes bibliographical references and index

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780226818368

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Klavierbau ; Maison Erard ; Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827 ; Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827 ; Paris ; Maison Erard ; Klavier ; Klaviertechnik ; Klaviermusik ; Musikalische Akustik ; Geschichte 1803-1810

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