The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven

Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 0307554007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Author: Jan Marisse Huizing
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300251602
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 335

Book Description
A comprehensive and immersive survey of thirty-five Beethoven piano sonatas Beethoven's piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autographs, first editions, recordings, and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practice, the book provides illuminating detail on Beethoven's pianism as well as his characteristics of notation, form and content, "types of touch," articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, tempo, and metronome marks. Packed with anecdotes, quotations, and considerable new information, the book will inspire all involved with these masterworks, playing a fortepiano or modern Grand, giving the sense of the composer sitting beside them as he translates his inspiration and ideas into his notation.

Beethoven, A Life

Author: Jan Caeyers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390210
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656

Book Description
"With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, ... Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers ... weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven--his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the 'immortal beloved, ' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music and its gradual transformation from the work of a skilled craftsman into that of a consummate artist"--Publisher marketing.

Bold Composer

Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0822587769
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Famous 19th century composer Ludwig van Beethoven compsed hundreds of works in his lifetime, including the well-known Moonlight Sonata and Symphony No. 5 and Symphony No. 9. He remains among the most-studied and most-loved composers.

The Life of Beethoven

Author: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521568784
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges.

Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486212610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
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Ludwig Van Beethoven

Author: Joseph Schmidt-Görg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Beethoven

Author: Jan Swafford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 061805474X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1107

Book Description
The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.

Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

Author: John Clubbe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393242560
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 633

Book Description
A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven’s political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions. Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafés and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of twenty-one to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer. In that conservative city, capital of the Hapsburg empire, authorities were ever watchful to curtail and punish overt displays of radical political views. Nevertheless, Beethoven avidly followed the meteoric rise of Napoleon. As Napoleon had made strides to liberate Europe from aristocratic oppression, so Beethoven desired to liberate humankind through music. He went beyond the musical forms of Haydn and Mozart, notably in the Eroica Symphony and his opera Fidelio, both inspired by the French Revolution and Napoleon. John Clubbe illuminates Beethoven as a lifelong revolutionary through his compositions, portraits, and writings, and by setting him alongside major cultural figures of the time—among them Schiller, Goethe, Byron, Chateaubriand, and Goya.

Beethoven's Letters

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317285
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
Features 457 letters to fellow musicians, friends, greats, patrons, and literary men. Reveals musical thoughts, quirks of personality, insights, and daily events. Includes 15 plates.