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Beethoven (Paperback)
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Beethoven (Paperback)
Series: Master Musicians Series
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The connections between a great artist's life and work are subtle,
complex, and often highly revealing. In the case of Beethoven,
however, the standard approach has been to treat his life and his
art separately. Now, Barry Cooper's new volume incorporates the
latest international research on many aspects of the composer's
life and work and presents these in a truly integrated narrative.
Cooper employs a strictly chronological approach that enables each
work to be seen against the musical and biographical background
from which it emerged. The result is a much closer confluence of
life and work than is usually achieved, for two reasons. First,
composition was Beethoven's central preoccupation for most of his
life: "I live entirely in my music," he once wrote. Second, recent
study of his many musical sketches has enabled a much clearer
picture of his everyday compositional activity than was previously
possible, leading to rich new insights into the interaction between
his life and music. This volume concentrates on Beethoven's
artistic achievements both by examining the origins of his works
and by expert commentary on some of their most striking and
original features. It also reexamines virtually all the
evidence--from fictitious anecdotes right down to the translations
of individual German words--to avoid recycling old errors. And it
offers numerous new details derived from sketch studies and a new
edition of Beethoven's correspondence.
Offering a wealth of fresh conclusions and intertwining life and
work in illuminating ways, Beethoven will establish itself as the
reference on one of the world's greatest composers.
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