The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830 / edited by Gerald Abraham.
| Other author | Abraham, Gerald, 1904-1988, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 1982. |
| Description | xix, 747 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | New Oxford history of music ; v. 8 New Oxford history of music ; v. 8. ^A159522 |
| Contents | General musical conditions / by Alec Hyatt King. War and the composer ; Publishing and popular taste ; Opera and new social ideas ; Nationalism ; Conditions in Italy ; England ; France ; Central Europe ; The European periphery ; America ; Status and outlook of the musician ; Musicians and publishers ; Wider culture of musicians ; The orchestra ; Instrumental technique ; Conducting ; Concerts ; Societies ; Audiences ; Musical scholarship ; Lexicography and bibliography ; Periodicals and journalism ; Printing, publishing, and editing -- French opera / by Winton Dean. The Revolutionary decade ; Opera under the Republic ; Opéra comique ; Stage spectacle and 'terror opera' ; Dalayrac ; Grétry's Guillaume Tell ; Incongruities in Republican opera ; Cherubini ; Influence of Don Giovanni ; Méhul ; Reminiscence motives ; Méhul's organization of form ; Characterization in Republican opera ; Dalayrac's reminiscence motives ; Le Sueur ; Berton and Rodolphe Kreutzer ; Gaveaux and Steibelt ; Innovations in orchestration ; Vocal writing ; Opera under the Consulate and Empire ; Ascendancy of serious opera ; Opera under the Empire ; Spontini's French operas ; Spontini and the orchestra ; Spontini's influence ; Le Sueur ; Le Sueur's influence on Berlioz ; Le Sueur and the orchestra ; Other grand operas of the period ; Catel ; Ballet and the exotic ; Opéra comique under the Empire ; Boieldieu ; Nicolò Isouard ; Opera under the restored Bourbons ; Influx of foreigners ; Rossini's French operas ; Guillaume Tell ; Rossini's influence ; Le Comte Ory ; Auber's Muette ; Auber's opéras comiques ; Hérold -- Beethoven's orchestral works / by Paul Mies. 'Twin' symphonies ; Patrons and public ; Contemporary opinions ; Treatment of the orchestra ; Introduction of the chorus ; Beethoven and his precursors ; Extended dimensions ; Beethoven's harmony ; Attitude to form ; Novel treatment of recapitulation ; Codas ; Metric planning ; The scherzi ; The problem of the finale ; Bogus 'programmes' ; Genuine extra-musical contexts ; The overtures ; Marches and dances -- The orchestral music of Beethoven's contemporaries / by Paul Mies. Beethoven's uniqueness ; Conditions of publication ; Instrumentation ; Structural problems of lesser masters ; The disciples of Haydn and Mozart ; Dittersdorf ; Rössler ; Pleyel ; Ferdinand Waldstein ; Gyrowetz ; Eberl ; Clementi ; Gossec and Méhul ; Cherubini ; Abt Vogler ; Weber ; Spohr's early symphonies ; Composers in the peripheral lands ; Orchestral fantasias and programme music ; Schubert's symphonies ; Schubert and Beethoven ; Schubert's Fifth Symphony ; The 'Unfinished' ; The Great C major ; The age of Beethoven -- The concerto / by John A. Meyer. The influence of fashion and taste ; Mozart's legacy ; Predominance of the piano concerto ; The Viennese concerto after Mozart ; The French violin concerto ; The fashionable concerto ; Introduction of popular melodies ; Slow movements ; First-movement structure ; Beethoven and the symphonic concerto ; Beethoven's early works ; Structural innovations in the mature concertos ; Beethoven's treatment of key ; Thematic derivation of solo episodes ; The quasi-symphonic element ; Concert and concerto in the early nineteenth century ; Formal characteristics of the virtuoso concerto ; Solo entries ; Solo episodes ; The virtuoso piano concerto and Chopin ; Finales ; The role of the orchestra ; Paganini ; Forerunners of the Romantic concerto ; New forms ; Weber's Concert-Stück ; Mendelssohn -- Beethoven's chamber music / by Gerald Abraham. Juvenilia ; The Bonn instrumentalists ; Early works recast ; First Viennese works ; Music for Viennese wind-players ; Works with cello ; Early violin sonatas ; The String Trios, Op. 9 ; The Op. 18 Quartets ; The Septet and some transcriptions ; The mature master ; Violin Sonatas, Opp. 23-47 ; The 'Razumovsky' Quartets ; Chamber music of 1808-9 ; Final masterpieces of the Middle Period ; The last quartets -- The chamber music of Beethoven's contemporaries / by Hans Mersmann and Gerald Abraham. Dittersdorf and his contemporaries ; Pleyel and Förster ; New instrumental combinations ; Schubert's early quartets ; Other types of chamber music ; The works of Schubert's maturity ; The last three quartets ; Piano trios and string quintet ; Schubert's contemporaries ; Cherubini -- |
| Contents | Piano music / by Philip Radcliffe. Clementi ; Clementi's last period ; Miscellaneous works ; Dussek ; Early Beethoven ; Middle-period Beethoven ; The final masterpieces ; Beethoven's variations ; Beethoven's miscellaneous pieces ; Some lesser masters ; Hummel ; Pupils of Clementi ; John Field ; Weber ; Schubert ; The sonatas of 1817 ; Works of 1822-5 ; Impromptus and Moments musicaux ; Schubert's later four-hand works ; The last three sonatas ; The rising generation -- Italian opera / by Winton Dean. Between Mozart and Rossini ; Opera buffa ; Satire in opera buffa ; Musical structure of buffa ; Paisiello and Cimarosa ; Opera seria ; Seria librettos ; Use of resources ; Paisiello, Cimarosa, and opera seria ; Ferdinando Paer ; Simon Mayr ; Opera semiseria ; Paer and semiseria ; Semiseria operas by Mayr ; Léonore operas by Mayr and Paer ; Forms and harmony ; Mayr's treatment of the orchestra ; Rossini ; La gazza ladra ; Rossini's early opera buffe ; Rossini's buffo masterpieces ; Rossini's opere serie ; The Naples operas ; Rossini's method ; Meyerbeer's Italian operas ; Donizetti and Mercadante ; Bellini ; Bellini's librettos ; Bellini's melody ; Il Pirata ; La Straniera ; I Capuleti e i Montecchi ; La Sonnambula and Norma ; Mutual influence of Bellini and Donizetti ; Donizetti's Anna Bolena ; Bellini's last operas -- German opera / by Winton Dean. Foreign influences ; The later Viennese Singspiel ; Spectacle and fantasy in Singspiel ; Peter von Winter ; Influence from France ; Opera in North Germany ; Fidelio ; Weigl's Schweizerfamilie ; The Romantic flame ; New types of libretto ; Hoffmann's Undine ; Spohr's weaknesses ; Spohr's historical importance ; Spohr's Faust ; Jessonda ; Der Berggeist ; Weber's historic role ; Weber's early operas ; Silvana ; Abu Hassan ; Weber's repertory as opera conductor ; Meyerbeer's first operas ; Weber's criticism and experiments ; Der Freischütz ; Euryanthe ; Oberon ; Weber, Wagner, and Hoffmann ; Weber's treatment of tonality and orchestra ; Heinrich Marschner ; Marschner's musical limitations ; Marschner's influence on Wagner ; Schubert as opera composer ; Stylistic influences on Schubert ; Musical characteristics ; Fierrabras ; Schubert's Singspiele -- Opera in other countries / by Gerald Abraham. Polish opera ; Elsner's operas ; Kurpiński ; Russian opera ; Catterino Cavos ; Verstovsky -- Solo song. Germany and Italy / by Leslie Orrey. Poetic sources ; Influence of the piano ; The North German composers ; Reichardt ; Zumsteeg ; Song in Austria ; Sterkel and Righini ; Italian songs and duets ; Beethoven ; Song cycles ; National song and folk-song ; Weber ; Schubert's background and early songs ; Schubert and Goethe ; Schubert and the ballad ; Smaller songs ; Schubert: the last phase ; Schubert's style ; Loewe and the ballad ; The Slav lands / by Gerald Abraham. Bohemia ; Poland ; Russia -- France / by Georges Favre. Vogue of the Romance ; The texts ; The composers ; Boieldieu ; The music of the Romances -- England / by Gerald Abraham -- Choral music / by Anthony Lewis. Introduction ; The German style ; Influence from the theatre ; Romanticism ; Oratorio and cantata ; Christus am Olberge ; Beethoven's other choral works ; Weber's Der erste Ton ; Weber's cantatas ; Schubert's quasi-oratorios ; Spohr ; Oratorio in France and England ; Liturgical music in the new century ; Cherubini's masses ; Cherubini's requiem masses ; Schubert's masses ; Schubert's other sacred music ; Beethoven's C major mass ; The Missa Solemnis ; Beethoven's contemporaries ; Samuel Wesley ; Bortnyansky ; Small secular forms ; The music of the French Revolution. |
| Abstract | Covers forty years which saw profound changes in music, most of them dominated by Beethoven. Provides a detailed, scholarly critical survey of the music of the period with chapters on French, Italian and German opera and on opera in other countries, on Beethoven's orchestral and chamber music and of his contemporaries on the concerto, on piano music, on solo song and on choral music, as well as an introductory chapter on general musical conditions of the time. |
| Local note | Joyner-FOR JOYNER MUSIC LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, NEW OXFORD HISTORY OF MUSIC, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER Music ML160 .N44. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-721) and index. |
| LCCN | 82006413 |
| ISBN | 019316308X |
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