Review
"The best of present-day Beethoven scholarship."-Stanley Sadie, editor of New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (Stanley Sadie )
"Since 1992, the University of Nebraska Press has published a Beethoven Forum, which is rich in information and knowledge. Fundamental research and topicality, once the domain of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, are admirably combined in the Forum."-Der Spiegel (
Der Spiegel )
"Beethoven Forum, 6, rewards not only Beethoven aficionados, but also that broader readership attracted to the best of modern musical scholarship...BF 6 is handsomely rendered. The clear imaginatively designed tables are instructive, the abundant musical examples are beautifully set, and the several diagrams and appendixes impart a wealth of information in a readily comprehensible manner. The scholars richly merit congratulations for their interdisciplinary command, their analyses, their revelations, and their insights. The editorial team as a whole has regained and quite possibly surpassed the standard of earlier volumes. For musicians and scholars of all persuasions, BF 6 is required reading."-Malcolm S. Cole, The Eighteenth Century: Current Bibliography (Malcom S. Cole
The Eighteenth Century )
About the Author
Glenn Stanley, an associate professor of music at the University of Connecticut, organized the March 1996 conference at Carnegie Hall entitled
The Beethoven Piano Sonatas: The Works and Their Critical Reception, at which these papers were first presented. He is also the editor of
Beethoven Forum 3.
Christopher Reynolds is a professor and chair of the Department of Music at the University of California at Davis. His articles have appeared in Journal of the American Musicological Society, Nineteenth-Century Music, and Early Music History. Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Proessor of Music at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the Einstein, Kinkeldey, and Marraro prizes and author of Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process, and Music in Renaissance Ferrara. James Webster is a professor of music at Cornell University. He received the Kinkeldey award for his book, Haydn's "Farewell" Symphony and the Idea of Classical Style.
