Chamber Arrangements of Beethoven's Symphonies
Author: Nancy November
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781987204544
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Chamber Arrangements of Beethoven's Symphonies, Part 2
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1987203372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume adds to our understanding of the Viennese string quintet, revealing the tip of a vast repertoire that has been little studied to date. The string quintet was a popular chamber genre and was one of the most popular media for arrangement in the early nineteenth century. String quintet arrangements were published for a great number of Beethovens works during his lifetime, including all of the symphonies except the third and ninth; many overtures; and Fidelio, in two parts. The string quintet arrangements in this volume are of particular significance in this publication history: they appeared as part of a new policy on the part of Beethoven and his publisher Sigmund Anton Steiner, which included the publication of orchestral scores simultaneously with the first editions of the orchestral parts and with arrangements for various instruments, from piano solo to larger ensembles.
Chamber Arrangements of Beethoven's Symphonies, Part 3
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published: 2020-01-01
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1987204549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume represents two important aspects of early-nineteenth-century taste in chamber music: a predilection for mixed groupings, including winds and strings; and a preference for larger groupings, including nonets. The sheer number of such works composed, along with data from publishing catalogs and concert programs, is evidence of the contemporary taste for varied chamber music. The present volume gives a selection of three large-scale chamber arrangements of Beethovens symphonies. Michael Gotthard Fischers arrangement of the sixth symphony for string sextet provides an example of this less common format. The nonet arrangement of the second symphony for flute, two horns, two violins, two violas, cello, and bass by Ferdinand Ries shows the flexibility of performance forces in this repertoire as well as the publishers and composers desires to capitalize on their popularity, given that this arrangement can be performed with or without the addition of winds. The arrangement of the fourth symphony by William Watts stands between the sextet and nonet arrangements noted above in its combination of one flute with six strings.
Beethoven's Symphonies Arranged for the Chamber
Author: Nancy November
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1108923879
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works.
Chamber Arrangements of Beethoven's Symphonies, Part 1
Author: Nancy November
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 198720283X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The three selections in this edition of quartet arrangements of Beethovens symphonies are chosen to represent the diversity of quartets as a medium for arrangement in the early nineteenth century. Only the arrangement by Carl Zulehner, of Beethovens first symphony, is a string quartet. The arrangement by Johann Nepomuk Hummel of Beethovens fifth symphony, for pianoforte, flute, violin, and violoncello (or pianoforte alone), is part of an extensive collection of arrangements that he made for that grouping, while the arrangement for piano quartet by Ferdinand Ries of the Eroica Symphony represents the particular popularity of chamber groupings involving stringed instruments and piano.
Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context
Author: Angus Watson
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1843837161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A noted violinist and conductor, Watson is particularly well suited for his chosen task: outlining the historical context and character of more than 50 of the chamber works that Beethoven composed during his years in Vienna. Avoiding the pitfalls of becoming too critical or "academic," the author characterizes each composition in general terms only, and does not discuss changing styles of performance. Instead, Watson provides information on a work's historical background and character, and on the musical points of interest in each movement. He pays special attention to the influence of Beethoven's large-scale compositions on his chamber music, and on the composer's increasing mastery of improvisation. Filling a hole in scholarship on Beethoven's compositions, this book will be greatly appreciated by professional and amateur musicians.
Chamber Music
Author: John H Baron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 797
ISBN-13: 1135848289
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide is a reference tool for anyone interested in chamber music. It is not a history or an encyclopedia but a guide to where to find answers to questions about chamber music. The third edition adds nearly 600 new entries to cover new research since publication of the previous edition in 2002. Most of the literature is books, articles in journals and magazines, dissertations and theses, and essays or chapters in Festschriften, treatises, and biographies. In addition to the core literature obscure citations are also included when they are the only studies in a particular field. In addition to being printed, this volume is also for the first time available online. The online environment allows for information to be updated as new research is introduced. This database of information is a "live" resource, fully searchable, and with active links. Users will have unlimited access, annual revisions will be made and a limited number of pages can be downloaded for printing.
Opera in the Viennese Home from Mozart to Rossini
Author: Nancy November
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-01-18
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1009409808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A unique window on the world of nineteenth-century amateur music-making provided by the study of domestic musical arrangements of opera.
Harvard Dictionary of Music
Author: Willi Apel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 968
ISBN-13: 9780674375017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.
Beethoven, A Life
Author: Jan Caeyers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 0520390210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, ... Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers ... weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven--his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the 'immortal beloved, ' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music and its gradual transformation from the work of a skilled craftsman into that of a consummate artist"--Publisher marketing.
