Description: Beethoven's Century : Essays on Composers and Themes, Hardcover by MacDonald, Hugh, ISBN 1580462758, ISBN-13 9781580462754, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, and how today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendship between Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera libretti in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janácek, are brought to life. Beethoven's Century concludes with a wry look at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.
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Book Title: Beethoven's Century : Essays on Composers and Themes
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Beethoven's Century : Essays on Composers and Themes
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician, Essays
Item Weight: 19.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Music, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Author: Hugh Macdonald
Item Length: 9.5 in
Series: Eastman Studies in Music Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
