|
Showing 1 - 13 of
13 matches in All Departments
This volume was first published in 1927, on the centenary of
Beethoven's death, as part of the Masters of Music series. The
author was an established biographer of organ composers, such as
The Organ Works of Bach. Attributing Beethoven's disagreeable
demeanour to his childhood, the author embarks on a passionate
defence of Beethoven's essential nobility of character, hoping to
assuage the then-prevalent anti-Beethoven chill and to encourage
readers to discover Beethoven anew. The volume covers an overview
of Beethoven's life, followed by his personality and an assessment
of his works in an exploration of the most important
characteristics of Beethoven's works and their influence on his
successors.
The original intention was that this book should be entirely
biographical. If it be true, however, that out main interest is (or
ought to be) in what a composer did rather than in what he was, the
truth applies especially to Beethoven, and above all at the present
time. The scheme of the book has therefore been modified so as to
include a survey of his work. An attempt to make such survey cover
the whole of Beethoven's output would result in little more than a
catalogue, with annotations to brief as to convey hardly anything
of the essential quality of the music. It seemed, therefore, that
the limited space would be best used, and the needs of the general
reader more fully met, by a much less rigid and comprehensive
method.
This volume was first published in 1927, on the centenary of
Beethoven's death, as part of the Masters of Music series. The
author was an established biographer of organ composers, such as
The Organ Works of Bach. Attributing Beethoven's disagreeable
demeanour to his childhood, the author embarks on a passionate
defence of Beethoven's essential nobility of character, hoping to
assuage the then-prevalent anti-Beethoven chill and to encourage
readers to discover Beethoven anew. The volume covers an overview
of Beethoven's life, followed by his personality and an assessment
of his works in an exploration of the most important
characteristics of Beethoven's works and their influence on his
successors.
The original intention was that this book should be entirely
biographical. If it be true, however, that out main interest is (or
ought to be) in what a composer did rather than in what he was, the
truth applies especially to Beethoven, and above all at the present
time. The scheme of the book has therefore been modified so as to
include a survey of his work. An attempt to make such survey cover
the whole of Beethoven's output would result in little more than a
catalogue, with annotations to brief as to convey hardly anything
of the essential quality of the music. It seemed, therefore, that
the limited space would be best used, and the needs of the general
reader more fully met, by a much less rigid and comprehensive
method. My aim has been to indicate some, at least, of the more
important characteristics of Beethoven's works, and to show their
influence on his successors.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
|
|