Beethoven: Variations on a Life

Beethoven's music expresses far more than just the iconic scowl we so often imagine when listening to his works. In this fresh perspective, Mark Evan Bonds proposes a new way of hearing Beethoven's music as a series of variations on the composer's entire self, not just his scowling self.

List of contents

• 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"


• Notes


• For Further Reading

About the author

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.

Summary

Beethoven's music expresses far more than just the iconic scowl we so often imagine when listening to his works. In this fresh perspective, Mark Evan Bonds proposes a new way of hearing Beethoven's music as a series of variations on the composer's entire self, not just his scowling self.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Evan Bonds, Mark Evan (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished P Bonds
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.09.2020
• EAN: 9780190054083
• ISBN: 978-0-19-005408-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Chamber, Biography: arts & entertainment, Social and cultural history, Theory of music & musicology, Biography: arts and entertainment, Theory of music and musicology