Format:
xxxvii, 419 Seiten
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Notenbeispiele
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24 cm
Edition:
First published
ISBN:
9781783271528
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1783271523
Series Statement:
Beethoven's conversation books / edited and translated by Theodore Albrecht Volume 3
Uniform Title:
Konversationshefte
Content:
Volume 1.Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820) --Volume 2.Nos. 9 to 16 (March 1820 to September 1820) --Volume 3.Nos. 17 to 31 (May 1822 to May 1823)
Content:
"Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had begun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Often, he himself used the pocket-sized booklets to make shopping lists and other reminders, including occasional early sketches for his compositions. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the years 1818 up to the composer's death in 1827 and including such topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre, religion, and education as perceived on a day-to-day basis in post-Napoleonic Europe. An East German edition, begun in the 1960s and essentially complete by 2001, represents a diplomatic transcription of these documents. It is a masterpiece of pure scholarship but is difficult to use for anyone who is not a specialist. Moreover, Beethoven scholarship has moved on significantly since the long-ranging genesis of the German edition. These important booklets are here translated into English in their entirety for the first time. The volumes in this series include an updated editorial apparatus, with revised and expanded notes and many new footnotes exclusive to this edition, and brand new introductions, which together place many of the quickly changing conversational topics into context"--Publisher's description
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770 - 1827 Beethoven's conversation books ; Volume 3: Nos. 17 to 31 (May 1822 to May 1823) Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2020 ISBN 9781787449022
Language:
English
Keywords:
Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827
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Konversation
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Gespräch
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Geschichte 1818-1820
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Quelle
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Gespräch
Author information:
Beethoven, Ludwig van 1770-1827
Author information:
Albrecht, Theodore 1945-
