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Beethoven's Conversation Books - Volume 4: Nos. 32 to 43 (May 1823 to September 1823) (Hardcover)
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Beethoven's Conversation Books - Volume 4: Nos. 32 to 43 (May 1823 to September 1823) (Hardcover)
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A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, in 12
volumes, now translated into English in their entirety for the
first time. Covering a period associated with the revolutionary
style of what we call "late Beethoven", these lively and compelling
conversations are now finally accessible in English for the scholar
and Beethoven-lover. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized
the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting
heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing
deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had begun
carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot
their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Often, he
himself used the pocket-sized booklets to make shopping lists and
other reminders, including occasional early sketches for his
compositions. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the
years 1818 up to the composer's death in 1827 and including such
topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre,
religion, and education as perceived on a day-to-day basis in
post-Napoleonic Europe. An East German edition, begun in the 1960s
and essentially complete by 2001, represents a diplomatic
transcription of these documents. It is a masterpiece of pure
scholarship but is difficult to use for anyone who is not a
specialist. Moreover, Beethoven scholarship has moved on
significantly since the long-ranging genesis of the German edition.
These important booklets are here translated into English in their
entirety for the first time. The volumes in this series include an
updated editorial apparatus, with revised and expanded notes and
many new footnotes exclusive to this edition, and brand new
introductions, which together place many of the quickly changing
conversational topics into context. Due to the editor's many years
of research in Vienna, his acquaintance with its history and
topography, as well as his familiarity with obscure documentary
resources, this edition represents an entirely new venture in
source studies - vitally informative for scholars not only in music
but also in a wide variety of disciplines. At the same time, these
often lively and compelling conversations are now finally
accessible for the English-speaking music lover or history buff who
might want to dip into them and hear what Beethoven and his friends
were discussing at the next table.
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