Beethoven, A Life

Beethoven, A Life

Hope, Daniel; Caeyers, Jan; Annable, Brent

University of California Press

06/2022

680

Mole

Inglês

9780520390218

15 a 20 dias

907

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Foreword by Daniel Hope
Prologue

Part One: The Artist as a Young Man (1770-1792)
1 * Louis van Beethoven: A Grandfather Figure
2 * Jean van Beethoven: The Absent Father?
3 * The Early Years
4 * Christian Gottlob Neefe: The Mentor
5 * The Young Professional
6 * Bonn Turns to Vienna
7 * Beethoven's First Crisis
8 * A Second Home, and New Horizons
9 * Renewed Vigor and the First Major Works
10 * Farewell to Bonn

Part Two: A Time of Proving (1792-1802)
11 * Vienna in 1792
12 * Beethoven's First Patron: Karl von Lichnowsky
13 * Haydn and Albrechtsberger
14 * Career Plans
15 * Family, Friends, and Loves in Vienna
16 * In Anticipation of Greater Things
17 * Lobkowitz's "Center of Excellence"
18 * The Immortal Beloved: Episode One
19 * The Road to a Broader Public
20 * A Word from the Critics
21 * The Disciples: Carl Czerny and Ferdinand Ries
22 * The Heiligenstadt Testament

Part Three: The Master (1802-1809)
23 * A "New Way" Forward
24 * The Laboratorium Artificiosum
25 * Publishing Pains and the "Warehouse of the Arts"
26 * Composer in Residence
27 * Salieri's Opera Lessons
28 * The Mystery of the Eroica
29 * The Immortal Beloved: Episode Two
30 * In Search of the Perfect Piano
31 * Leonore: A Work in Progress
32 * The Golden Years

Part Four: Crowds and Power (1809-1816)
33 * A New Social Status
34 * New Prospects
35 * An Imperial Pupil
36 * Beethoven and Goethe
37 * The Immortal Beloved: Episode Three
38 * Se non e vero . . .
39 * The End of the Classical Symphony
40 * Music for the Masses
41 * A Lucrative Sideline
42 * From Leonore to Fidelio
43 * From Coffee and Cake to Congress and Kitsch
44 * The Fight for a Child
45 * From the "Immortal Beloved" to a "Distant Beloved"

Part Five: The Lonely Way (1816-1827)
46 * Longing for Greater Things
47 * Post-Congress Vienna
48 * London Plans
49 * A Faustian Sonata and a Diabolical Contraption
50 * The Missa solemnis: A Mass for Peace
51 * The Circle Is Complete: The Late Piano Works
52 * Estrangement
53 * Encounters with the Younger Generation
54 * An Ode to Joy
55 * Decline
56 * Karl's Emancipation
57 * Money Matters
58 * The Discovery of Heaven: The Late String Quartets
59 * Comoedia finita est

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index of Works
Index of People
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