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250 years after the composer's birth, Beethoven Studies 4 offers new perspectives on Beethoven and his music, from the aesthetic to the performative, the analytical to the historical. The stimulating original research will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.
List of contents
1. From the chapel to the theatre to the Akademiensaal: Beethoven's musical apprenticeship at the Bonn Electoral Court, 1784-1792 John Wilson; 2. Gracious Beethoven? W. Dean Sutcliffe; 3. Beethoven's unfinished symphonies Barry Cooper; 4. Beethoven as sentimentalist Michael Spitzer; 5. Beethoven's nature: idealism and sovereignty from an ecological perspective Keith Chapin; 6. (Cross-) gendering the German voice Katherine Hambridge; 7. Beethoven and tonal prototypes: an inherited and developing relationship Giorgio Sanguinetti; 8. Shared identities and thwarted narratives: Beethoven and the Austrian Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1817-1824 David Wyn Jones; 9. Composing with a dictionary: sounding the word in Beethoven's Missa solemnis Birgit Lodes; 10. Deafly performing Beethoven's last three piano sonatas Tom Beghin; Index of Beethoven's works; General index.
About the author
Keith Chapin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music at Cardiff University. He has served as co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Music and associate editor of Nineteenth-Century Music, as well as on the editorial boards of the Acta musicologica and the Revue de musicologie. He co-edited Musical Meaning and Human Values (with Lawrence Kramer, 2009) and Speaking of Music: Addressing the Sonorous (with Andrew Clark, 2013).David Wyn Jones is Professor of Music at Cardiff University. He has published widely on Beethoven including The Life of Beethoven (Cambridge, 1998) and The Symphony in Beethoven's Vienna (Cambridge, 2006). In 2013–2015 he was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and he is currently a member of the Advisory Committee for a major research project in the Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna.
Summary
250 years after the composer's birth, Beethoven Studies 4 offers new perspectives on Beethoven and his music, from the aesthetic to the performative, the analytical to the historical. The stimulating original research will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.
