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Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context (Paperback)
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Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context (Paperback)
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This comprehensive survey shows how the larger scale works relate
to Beethoven's chamber music and how the composer evolved an
increasing freedom of form. Beethoven's Chamber Music in Context
provides professional and amateur musicians, and music lovers
generally, with a complete survey of Beethoven's chamber music and
the background to each individual work - the loyalty of patrons,
musicians and friends on the one hand; increasing deafness and
uncertain health on the other. Attention is paid to the influence
of such large-scale compositions as the Eroica Symphony and Fidelio
on the chamber music of his middle years and the Missa Solemnis and
the Ninth Symphony on his late quartets. The author also lays
stress on Beethoven's ever-increasing freedom of form - largely a
result of his mastery of improvisationand a powerful symbol of the
fusion of classical discipline with the subversive spirit of
romantic adventure which characterises his mature music.
Beethoven's friends were not shy about asking him what his music
meant, orwhat inspired him, and it is clear that he attached the
greatest importance to the words he used when describing the
character of his compositions. 'The tempo is more like the body,'
he wrote when commending Malzel's invention ofthe metronome, 'but
these indications of character certainly refer to the spirit.'
Angus Watson, a violinist and conductor, has been Director of Music
at Stowe School, Winchester College and Wells Cathedral School, one
of Britain's specialist music schools. From 1984-1989 he was Dean
of Music at the newly founded Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts.
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