2000, ISBN: 0198165986

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[SC: 26.88], [PU: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000], Jacket, very good dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, attractive copy, very good brown cloth. COOPER, BARRY. Beethoven. O… Mehr…

[SC: 26.88], [PU: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000], Jacket, very good dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, attractive copy, very good brown cloth. COOPER, BARRY. Beethoven. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 1st printing number line starting with 1, xvi, 410pp., . Master musicians series. - "This new study of Beethoven and his music is written as a continuous, chronological narrative that sets the works against the musical and biographical background from which they emerged. Such an approach results in close integration of life and works, and is particularly appropriate in the case of Beethoven: firstly because composition was his central preoccupation ('I live entirely in my music', he once wrote), and secondly because recent research on his numerous musical sketches has produced a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity, leading to many new insights into the interaction between his life and music. Barry Cooper illuminates Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by commentary on some of their most striking and original features." "Statements in earlier biographies have been scrutinized carefully and are accepted here only if supported by sound evidence. This thorough reassessment extends even to translations of individual German words, and many well-known but fictitious anecdotes have been eliminated. Conversely, numerous details discovered in recent years are for the first time incorporated into a general study of Beethoven - notably information from sketch studies and from a new edition of his correspondence. The many fresh conclusions will be of interest to both specialists and the musical public at large." - CONTENTS: 1. Young genius (1770-83) -- 2. Adolescence (1784-9) -- 3. Farewell to Bonn (1790-2) -- 4. The conquest of Vienna (1792-5) -- 5. Wider horizons (1796-8) -- 6. First quartets and first symphony (1799-1800) -- 7. Hope and despair (1801-2) -- 8. After Heiligenstadt (1802-3) -- 9. L'amour conjugal (1804-6) -- 10. A cluster of masterpieces (1806-8) -- 11. Financial security? (1809-10) -- 12. Immortal beloved (1811-12) -- 13. The political phase (1813-15) -- 14. Declining productivity (1815-17) -- 15. Gigantism (1818-20) -- 16. Completion of the Mass (1820-2) -- 17. Completion of the Ninth (1822-4) -- 18. End of an Era (1824-7) -- Appendices -- A. Calendar -- B. List of works -- C. Personalia. 9780198165989 ISBN 0198165986<

2000, ISBN: 0198165986

Gebundene Ausgabe

[PU: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000], Jacket, very good dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, attractive copy, very good brown cloth. COOPER, BARRY. Beethoven. Oxford ; New Y… Mehr…

[PU: Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000], Jacket, very good dust-jacket, cover price $35.00, attractive copy, very good brown cloth. COOPER, BARRY. Beethoven. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 1st printing number line starting with 1, xvi, 410pp., . Master musicians series. - "This new study of Beethoven and his music is written as a continuous, chronological narrative that sets the works against the musical and biographical background from which they emerged. Such an approach results in close integration of life and works, and is particularly appropriate in the case of Beethoven: firstly because composition was his central preoccupation ('I live entirely in my music', he once wrote), and secondly because recent research on his numerous musical sketches has produced a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity, leading to many new insights into the interaction between his life and music. Barry Cooper illuminates Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by commentary on some of their most striking and original features." "Statements in earlier biographies have been scrutinized carefully and are accepted here only if supported by sound evidence. This thorough reassessment extends even to translations of individual German words, and many well-known but fictitious anecdotes have been eliminated. Conversely, numerous details discovered in recent years are for the first time incorporated into a general study of Beethoven - notably information from sketch studies and from a new edition of his correspondence. The many fresh conclusions will be of interest to both specialists and the musical public at large." - CONTENTS: 1. Young genius (1770-83) -- 2. Adolescence (1784-9) -- 3. Farewell to Bonn (1790-2) -- 4. The conquest of Vienna (1792-5) -- 5. Wider horizons (1796-8) -- 6. First quartets and first symphony (1799-1800) -- 7. Hope and despair (1801-2) -- 8. After Heiligenstadt (1802-3) -- 9. L'amour conjugal (1804-6) -- 10. A cluster of masterpieces (1806-8) -- 11. Financial security? (1809-10) -- 12. Immortal beloved (1811-12) -- 13. The political phase (1813-15) -- 14. Declining productivity (1815-17) -- 15. Gigantism (1818-20) -- 16. Completion of the Mass (1820-2) -- 17. Completion of the Ninth (1822-4) -- 18. End of an Era (1824-7) -- Appendices -- A. Calendar -- B. List of works -- C. Personalia. 9780198165989 ISBN 0198165986<

ISBN: 9780198165989

The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven, however, the standard approach has been to treat his life… Mehr…

The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle, complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven, however, the standard approach has been to treat his life and his art separately. Now, Barry Cooper's new volume incorporates the latest international research on many aspects of the composer's life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative. Cooper employs a strictly chronological approach that enables each work to be seen against the musical and biographical background from which it emerged. The result is a much closer confluence of life and work than is usually achieved, for two reasons. First, composition was Beethoven's central preoccupation for most of his life: "I live entirely in my music," he once wrote. Second, recent study of his many musical sketches has enabled a much clearer picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously possible, leading to rich new insights into the interaction between his life and music. This volume concentrates on Beethoven's artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works and by expert commentary on some of their most striking and original features. It also reexamines virtually all the evidence--from fictitious anecdotes right down to the translations of individual German words--to avoid recycling old errors. And it offers numerous new details derived from sketch studies and a new edition of Beethoven's correspondence. Offering a wealth of fresh conclusions and intertwining life and work in illuminating ways, Beethoven will establish itself as the reference on one of the world's greatest composers. Media > Book, [PU: Oxford University Press]<