Beethoven Forum: v. 3 (Beethoven Forum S.) - Hardcover

9780803242463: Beethoven Forum: v. 3 (Beethoven Forum S.)

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ISBN 10: 0803242468 ISBN 13: 9780803242463

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

James Webster evaluates the critical tradition of dividing Beethoven's career into three periods and discusses its artificiality and its implications. Jurgen May's essay considers Beethoven's relations with one of the first of his most important patrons. Lewis Lockwood examines Beethoven's sketchbooks to describe how Beethoven composed with and against models from Mozart. Glenn Stanley surveys Beethoven's sets of piano variations written in his first decade in Vienna. Elaine R. Sisman provides a historical and aesthetic analysis of one of Beethoven's most popular piano sonatas. The composition of the "Spring" sonata is traced in the sketchbooks by Carl Schachter. Nicholas Marston discusses the composition of the "Second Symphony", and William E. Caplin defines "hybrid themes" and shows their variety in Beethoven's early compositions. William Kinderman concludes with a review of Klaus Kropfinger's "Wagner and Beethoven."

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About the Author

This volume is guest edited by Glenn Stanley, who organized the 1993 conference, Beethoven in Vienna 1792-1803: the First Style Period where these essays were first presented and discussed.

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