Beethoven : variations on a life / Mark Evan Bonds.

Author/creator Bonds, Mark Evan author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Oxford University Press, ©2020.
Descriptionix, 147 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents The scowl -- The Life -- Ideals -- Deafness -- Love -- Money -- Politics -- Composing -- Early-Middle-Late -- The music -- "Beethoven".
Abstract Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word of phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-leasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works, Bonds argues are a series of variations on his life.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2019053066
ISBN9780190054083 hardcover
ISBN0190054085 hardcover
ISBNelectronic publication

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