Beethoven's Symphonies - An Artistic Vision

Informationen zum Autor Lewis Lockwood taught at Princeton and Harvard universities, where he is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus. His Beethoven: The Music and the Life was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts. Klappentext Lewis Lockwood's compelling story introduces each symphony as an individual artwork and traces the creative background of each, set against the contemporary political upheavals, the growth of concert life and the relationship to his major works in other genres. From the first symphonies to the monumental Ninth, his lifelong passion to compose works of transcendent aesthetic and moral value is brilliantly brought to life. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the unswerving artistic vision underlying Beethoven’s symphonies, from a leading scholar of the composer’s works.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Lockwood, Lockwood Lewis
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780393353853
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35385-3
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 212 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Composers and songwriters, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Art music, orchestral and formal music