Beethoven and His World / / ed. by Michael P. Steinberg, Scott Burnham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Botstein, Leon,; Brinkmann, Reinhold,; Burnham, Scott,; Comini, Alessandra,; Gibbs, Christopher H.,; Kinderman, William,; Lockwood, Lewis,; Marston, Nicholas,; Pederson, Sanna,; Sisman, Elaine,; Skowroneck, Tllman,; Stanley, Glenn,; Steinberg, Michael P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Burnham, Scott,; Steinberg, Michael P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven and His World gathers eminent scholars from several disciplines who collectively speak to the r...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• PART I HEROIC BEETHOVEN
• In the Time(s) of the "Eroica"
• Beethoven, Florestan, and the Varieties of Heroism
• PART II LATE BEETHOVEN
• Memory and Invention at the Threshold of Beethoven's Late Style
• Voices and Their Rhythms in the First Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 109: Some Thoughts on the Performance and Analysis of a Late-Style Work
• Voicing Beethoven's Distant Beloved
• PART III BEETHOVEN IN THE WORKSHOP
• Keyboard Instruments of the Young Beethoven
• Contrast and Continuity in Beethoven's Creative Process
• PART IV BEETHOVEN IN THE WORLD
• Performances of Grief: Vienna's Response to the Death of Beethoven
• The Visual Beethoven: Whence, Why, and Whither the Scowl?
• Beethoven and Masculinity
• The Search for Meaning in Beethoven: Popularity, Intimacy, and Politics in Historical Perspective
• Index
• Notes on the Contributors