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Beethoven'S Critics - Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions During the Composer's Lifetime (Paperback, Revised)
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Beethoven'S Critics - Aesthetic Dilemmas and Resolutions During the Composer's Lifetime (Paperback, Revised)
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This book is a survey of the critical reaction to Beethoven's music
as it appeared in the major musical journals, French as well as
German, of his day, and represents the first book-length history of
Beethoven reception. The author discusses the philosophical and
analytical implications of these reviews - by, among others,
Hoffmann, A. B. Marx and Berlioz - and reassesses what has come to
be the accepted view of a nineteenth- century musical aesthetics
rooted in Romantic Idealism. Wallace sees Beethoven's critics as in
fact providing a link between two apparently antithetical
approaches to music: the eighteenth-century emphasis on expression
and extra-musical interpretation and the nineteenth-century
emphasis on absolute' music and formal analysis. This book thus
provides, in addition to a carefully documented study of
Beethoven's critical reception, a re-evaluation of his oeuvre and
its significance in music history. An index of all reviews cited is
provided, and a further appendix contains the quoted material in
its original language. 'Robin Wallace's book is an important
addition to the literature in the field, providing a detailed, yet
concisely presented examination of the critical reception of
Beethoven in contemporary musical periodicals.' -- Music and
Letters 'Beethoven's Critics contains a wealth of fascinating
information about the ways in which the composer's contemporaries
and the following generation performed, heard, studied and
evaluated his music.' -- Classical MusicThis book is a survey of
the critical reaction to Beethoven's music as it appeared in the
major musical journals, French as well as German, of his day, and
represents the first book-length history ofBeethoven reception. The
author discusses the philosophical and analytical implications of
these reviews - by, among others, Hoffmann, A. B. Marx and Berlioz
- and reassesses what has come to be the accepted view of a
nineteenth- century musical aesthetics rooted in Romantic Idealism.
Wallace sees Beethoven's critics as in fact providing a link
between two apparently antithetical approaches to music: the
eighteenth-century emphasis on expression and extra-musical
interpretation and the nineteenth-century emphasis on absolute'
music and formal analysis. This book thus provides, in addition to
a carefully documented study of Beethoven's critical reception, a
re-evaluation of his oeuvre and its significance in music history.
An index of all reviews cited is provided, and a further appendix
contains the quoted material in its original language. 'Robin
Wallace's book is an important addition to the literature in the
field, providing a detailed, yet concisely presented examination of
the critical reception of Beethoven in contemporary musical
periodicals.' -- Music and Letters 'Beethoven's Critics contains a
wealth of fascinating information about the ways in which the
composer's contemporaries and the following generation performed,
heard, studied and evaluated his music.' -- Classical Music
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