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Beethoven's Conversation Books Volume 1: Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820)

Beethoven's Conversation Books Volume 1: Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820)

Albrecht, Theodore
Albrecht, Theodore

Hardcover

Series: Beethoven's Conversation Books

MusiciansClassical Music

ISBN10: 1783271507
ISBN13: 9781783271504
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: May 18 2018
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time. Covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call late Beethoven, these often lively and compelling conversations are now finally accessible in English for the scholar and Beethoven-lover.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer hadbegun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Often, he himself used the pocket-sized booklets to make shopping lists and other reminders, including occasional early sketches for his compositions. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the years 1818 up to the composer's death in 1827 and including such topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre, religion, and education as perceived on a day-to-day basis in post-Napoleonic Europe. An East German edition, begun in the 1960s and essentially complete by 2001, represents a diplomatic transcription of these documents. It is a masterpiece of pure scholarship but is difficult to use for anyone who is not a specialist. Moreover, Beethoven scholarship has moved on significantly since the long-ranging genesis of the German edition.

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