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The New Grove Beethoven (New Grove Composer Biographies) [Paperback]

Joseph Kerman (Author, Preface), Alan Tyson (Preface)

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Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (November 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393303551
ISBN-13: 978-0393303551
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces

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This book is being used in my music class at Dartmouth College that's focusing on Beethoven. It contains very accurate information about the Maestro himself and does not add to the myths about the composer as other books do. It's very easy to read and there's a lot of satisfaction and knowledge that a Beethoven admirer can gain from this magnificent biography.

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Three generations of the Beethoven family found employment as musicians at the court of the Electorate of Cologne, which had its seat at Bonn. Read the first page

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symphonic ideal, puzzle canon, sonata style, piano variations, late quartets, cello sonatas, piano trio, piano sonata

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Eroica Symphony, Archduke Rudolph, Caspar Carl, Prince Lobkowitz, Schuppanzigh Quartet, Seventh Symphony, Eighth Symphony, Fifth Symphony, First Symphony, Prince Lichnowsky, Violin Sonata, Bettina Brentano, Count Razumovsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Stephan von Breuning, Antonie Brentano, Count Waldstein, Diabelli Variations, Eleonore von Breuning, George Thomson of Edinburgh, Maynard Solomon, Schiller's Ode, Cello Sonata

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Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
Beethoven Studies by Ludwig Misch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Beethoven Companion by Denis Arnold in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Unconscious Beethoven: An Essay in Musical Psychology by Ernest Newman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Essays in Musical Analysis, Volume 1: Symphonies by Sir Donald Francis Tovey in Back Matter

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Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (California Studies in 19th Century Music) by Stephen Rumph on 4 pages
The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Glenn Stanley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Paul Robinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Volume 1, Fugue, Form and Style (Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Music) by Ian Bent on page 306, and Back Matter
Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History by Esteban Buch in Back Matter

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