The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven

by Jonah Winter
The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2014-04-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0307554007
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How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

by Jan Marisse Huizing
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Jan Marisse Huizing
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2021
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0300251602
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A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven's piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autographs, first editions, recordings, and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practice, the book provides illuminating detail on Beethoven's pianism as well as his characteristics of notation, form and content, "types of touch," articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, tempo, and metronome marks. Packed with anecdotes, quotations, and considerable new information, the book will inspire all involved with these masterworks, playing a fortepiano or modern Grand, giving the sense of the composer sitting beside them as he translates his inspiration and ideas into his notation.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

by Carl Dahlhaus
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Carl Dahlhaus
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1991
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780198163992
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Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an alternative between the fragmentation found in most specialized studies and the superficial overview typical of popular biography. In this volume, Carl Dahlhaus, one of the century's leading musicologists, combines interpretations of individual works that focus on issues of composition and musical history, with excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800; an age that was not only a "classical" period in the history of the arts but also one in that aesthetics carved itself a place in the center of philosophical attention. The theme of the book is the reconstruction of Beethoven's "musical thinking" from the evidence in the works themselves and their context in the history of ideas.

Bold Composer

by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Bold Composer
Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822587769
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Famous 19th century composer Ludwig van Beethoven compsed hundreds of works in his lifetime, including the well-known Moonlight Sonata and Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 9. He remains among the most-studied and most-loved composers.

Beethoven, A Life

by Jan Caeyers
Beethoven, A Life
Author: Jan Caeyers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520390210
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"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.

The Life of Beethoven

by David Wyn Jones
The Life of Beethoven
Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998-11-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521568784
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'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges.

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio

by Paul A. Robinson
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Fidelio
Author: Paul A. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1996-09-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521458528
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This book explores the fascinating musical and dramatic elements within Fidelio, Beethoven's only complete opera.