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Marking the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, this volume
presents twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven's
personal life, his composing process, his manuscripts, and his
greatest works. Beethoven's music stands as a universal symbol of
personal and artistic achievement. As we reach and then surpass the
250th anniversary of the composer's birth, Jeremy Yudkin has
commissioned a collection of new essays from some of the most
insightful writers on Beethoven's accomplishments and brought them
together in this remarkable volume. Filled with careful
explanations, this book gives us completely new insights into music
known and loved by people around the world. Ordinary music lovers
as well as scholars will find countless new discoveries about
Beethoven and his music. Listeners will hear his compositions
afresh, and scholars will find new results of research and analysis
and new avenues for discovery. Topics include Beethoven's cultural
milieu, his personal life, his friends, his publishers, his
instruments, his working methods, his own handwritten scores, and,
of course, his music. Many works are carefully discussed and
explained in ways that reveal fascinating and previously unknown
aspects of compositions that we thought we knew well. A landmark
publication for all who admire some of the greatest music of our
civilization.
The repertoire of the early Viennese ballroom was highly
influential in the broader histories of both social dance and music
in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet music scholarship has
traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before
the era of the Strauss dynasty, with the exception of a handful of
dances by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. This book positions Viennese
social dances in their specific performing contexts and
investigates the wider repertoire of the Viennese ballroom in the
decades around 1800, most of which stems from dozens of
non-canonical composers. Close examination of this material yields
new insights into the social contexts associated with familiar
dance types, and reveals that the ballroom repertoire of this
period connected with virtually every aspect of Viennese musical
life, from opera and concert music to the emerging category of
entertainment music that was later exemplified by the waltzes of
Lanner and Strauss.
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