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Author: Tia DeNora Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520920155 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 254
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In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons who paved the way for the composer's success. DeNora reconstructs the development of Beethoven's reputation as she recreates Vienna's robust musical scene through contemporary accounts, letters, magazines, and myths—a colorful picture of changing times. She explores the ways Beethoven was seen by his contemporaries and the image crafted by his supporters. Comparing Beethoven to contemporary rivals now largely forgotten, DeNora reveals a figure musically innovative and complex, as well as a keen self-promoter who adroitly managed his own celebrity. DeNora contends that the recognition Beethoven received was as much a social achievement as it was the result of his personal gifts. In contemplating the political and social implications of culture, DeNora casts many aspects of Beethoven's biography in a new and different light, enriching our understanding of his success as a performer and composer.
Author: Tia DeNora Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520920155 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons who paved the way for the composer's success. DeNora reconstructs the development of Beethoven's reputation as she recreates Vienna's robust musical scene through contemporary accounts, letters, magazines, and myths—a colorful picture of changing times. She explores the ways Beethoven was seen by his contemporaries and the image crafted by his supporters. Comparing Beethoven to contemporary rivals now largely forgotten, DeNora reveals a figure musically innovative and complex, as well as a keen self-promoter who adroitly managed his own celebrity. DeNora contends that the recognition Beethoven received was as much a social achievement as it was the result of his personal gifts. In contemplating the political and social implications of culture, DeNora casts many aspects of Beethoven's biography in a new and different light, enriching our understanding of his success as a performer and composer.
Author: David Wyn Jones Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521862612 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 9
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The status of Beethoven's symphonies is ingrained in Western culture, but very little is known about the environment in which the composer wrote them. David Wyn Jones explores the symphonies of other composers of the time together with the patterns of musical life in Vienna that helped shape the destiny of the symphony. This original study will be of interest to Beethoven enthusiasts and those interested in exploring the reality behind the image of Vienna as a deeply supportive musical city.
Author: Beethoven Forum Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9780803261952 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 250
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Collecting the best of international Beethoven studies, Beethoven Forum promotes and sustains the high level of scholarship inspired by Beethoven's extraordinary works.
Author: Peter Kivy Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300135114 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 303
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The concept of genius intrigues us. Artistic geniuses have something other people don’t have. In some cases that something seems to be a remarkable kind of inspiration that permits the artist to exceed his own abilities. It is as if the artist is suddenly possessed, as if some outside force flows through him at the moment of creation. In other cases genius seems best explained as a natural gift. The artist is the possessor of an extra talent that enables the production of masterpiece after masterpiece. This book explores the concept of artistic genius and how it came to be symbolized by three great composers of the modern era: Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven. Peter Kivy, a leading thinker in musical aesthetics, delineates the two concepts of genius that were already well formed in the ancient world. Kivy then develops the argument that these concepts have alternately held sway in Western thought since the beginning of the eighteenth century. He explores why this pendulum swing from the concept of the possessor to the concept of the possessed has occurred and how the concepts were given philosophical reformulations as views toward Handel, Mozart, and Beethoven as geniuses changed in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Author: Matthew Gelbart Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139466089 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 265
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We tend to take for granted the labels we put to different forms of music. This study considers the origins and implications of the way in which we categorize music. Whereas earlier ways of classifying music were based on its different functions, for the past two hundred years we have been obsessed with creativity and musical origins, and classify music along these lines. Matthew Gelbart argues that folk music and art music became meaningful concepts only in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and only in relation to each other. He examines how cultural nationalism served as the earliest impetus in classifying music by origins, and how the notions of folk music and art music followed - in conjunction with changing conceptions of nature, and changing ideas about human creativity. Through tracing the history of these musical categories, the book confronts our assumptions about different kinds of music.
Author: Jerome Bengis Publisher: Rose Mason Press ISBN: 9781613050354 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This treatise on nine symphonies of Beethoven describes the joyride experienced by one of Beethoven's faithful listeners. Young Jerome Bengis attended performances of the symphony orchestra and recorded his experiences in gorgeous and emotional prose. The great music unleashed his imagination and allowed him to delve into the mind of the composer. His analysis of the symphonic works, movement by movement, includes the timeline of historical events which influenced Beethoven.On hearing the masterpieces, Bengis was taken by Beethoven's genius. He writes, not from the viewpoint of an academic or one trained in music criticism, but as an avid and attentive listener who has been swept away in awe on recognizing that Beethoven was developing, with each succeeding symphony, an entirely new way of approaching musical construction. Beethoven was not content to have mastered the entirety of music history and perfecting his own technical brilliance-he allowed himself to be influenced by the geniuses of his era and the onward rush of civilization as it was unfolding. He continually strove to invent new ways to express the sea changes humanity was experiencing and to promote understanding of what it means to be human.Bengis puts Beethoven into historical context, showing how the composer incorporated into his work the social changes roiling throughout the entire world. The composer saw the influence of the charisma and destructive power of Napoleon, the foment of the American and French Revolutions, and the manifestation of the ideas of liberty and the rights of man. His music evokes this new-found independence from both monarchy and from tradition. Beethoven's Ninth, with its choral masterpiece "Ode to Joy," is an expression of the fullness of human consciousness. It culminates in the rise of the common man with his hopes for a realization of the ideal.Bengis's writing is unconventional and enthusiastic. For the modern reader, it is a fresh look at Beethoven through eyes brimming with tears of joy. If nothing else, these words will give you the language you may have been searching for in order to properly introduce a young child to the mysteries of great music.
Author: Mark Ferraguto Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190947195 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 256
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Between early 1806 and early 1807, Ludwig van Beethoven completed a remarkable series of instrumental works. But critics have struggled to reconcile the music of this banner year with Beethoven's "heroic style," the paradigm through which his middle-period works have typically been understood. Drawing on theories of mediation and a wealth of primary sources, Beethoven 1806 explores the specific contexts in which the music of this year was conceived, composed, and heard. As author Mark Ferraguto argues, understanding this music depends on appreciating the relationships that it both creates and reflects. Not only did Beethoven depend on patrons, performers, publishers, critics, and audiences to earn a living, but he also tailored his compositions to suit particular sensibilities, proclivities, and technologies.
Author: Tia DeNora
Author: Tia DeNora
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