Burning Beethoven
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Burning Beethoven
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Author : Erik Kirschbaum
language : en
Publisher: Berlinica
Release Date : 2015
Burning Beethoven written by Erik Kirschbaum and has been published by Berlinica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
"Burning Beethoven explores how a flourishing culture in America was wiped out by an eruption of anti-German hysteria during World War I, when jingoistic Americans eradicated German from schools, churches, libraries, and newspapers. Germans made up the biggest, proudest, annd most successful ethnic group but became targets of hate, and sometimes victims of tarring and feathering - - even vigilante hangings. Zealous Americans slaughtered dachshunds and renamed sauerkraut "liberty cabbage" - - the "freedom fries" of that era. This book sheds light on a dark chapter of American history." --Back cover.
Beethoven
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Author : Ian Bernard Graham Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-04-30
Beethoven written by Ian Bernard Graham Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-30 with Love categories.
Beethoven! is the story of a man's pursuit of music, as he struggles against increasing deafness and other periodic ailments. Whilst he is a naturally gregarious person, and loves keenly a number of ladies (even leading to proposals of marriage), his hearing problem makes him more and more isolated. Compounding this is his lack of money sense, and a sometimes-too-quick temper - which causes him to fall out with his friends and run through a string of servants. Fortunately his friends are extremely loyal on the whole, and stick with him, doing their best to help him where and when they can.Act 1 establishes a number of Beethoven's character traits, in the context of his increasing reputation, and follows some of his initiatives in trying to live what might be called a regular life - that is, mixing in society and entering a state of matrimony, as well as trying to earn a living in a well-regarded vocation.Reflecting these aspects, we find Beethoven in various situations, relating to his friends, and where we can learn, either from the context of the scene or from himself, something of the man and his music.The main themes of Act 1 are love and music, with deafness as a shadow in the background. Act 2 takes us into the latter part of Beethoven's life, particularly the conflict between his desire for marriage and a normal life and his growing view that this would diminish his art. Interleaving these matters is the self-consuming saga of his efforts to gain guardianship of his nephew, together with something of the trauma which results from this, and a little fun.The act ends with both a quiet and a triumphant affirmation of Beethoven's time-transcending greatness.
The Beethoven Syndrome
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Author : Mark Evan Bonds
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
The Beethoven Syndrome written by Mark Evan Bonds and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
The "Beethoven Syndrome" is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer's inner self. This was a radically new way of listening that emerged only after Beethoven's death. Beethoven's music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general--and not just Beethoven--in their works, particularly in their instrumental music. The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of this mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Prior to 1830, composers and audiences alike operated within a framework of rhetoric in which the burden of intelligibility lay squarely on the composer, whose task it was to move listeners in a calculated way. But through a confluence of musical, philosophical, social, and economic changes, the paradigm of expressive objectivity gave way to one of subjectivity in the years around 1830. The framework of rhetoric thus yielded to a framework of hermeneutics: concert-goers no longer perceived composers as orators but as oracles to be deciphered. In the wake of World War I, however, the aesthetics of "New Objectivity" marked a return not only to certain stylistic features of eighteenth-century music but to the earlier concept of expression itself. Objectivity would go on to become the cornerstone of the high modernist aesthetic that dominated the century's middle decades. Masterfully citing a broad array of source material from composers, critics, theorists, and philosophers, Mark Evan Bonds's engaging study reveals how perceptions of subjective expression have endured, leading to the present era of mixed and often conflicting paradigms of listening.
The Changing Image Of Beethoven
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Author : Alessandra Comini
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2008
The Changing Image Of Beethoven written by Alessandra Comini and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.
Beethoven
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Author : Michael Broyles
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1987
Beethoven written by Michael Broyles and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Music categories.
First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Beethoven A Life
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Author : Jan Caeyers
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-05-03
Beethoven A Life written by Jan Caeyers and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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.
The Mysteries Of Beethoven S Hair
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Author : Russell Martin Lydia Nibley
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Release Date : 2009-02-01
The Mysteries Of Beethoven S Hair written by Russell Martin Lydia Nibley and has been published by Charlesbridge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Introduces the life of the Austrian composer, along with the story of a lock of his hair cut by a barber after his death, which was kept by various owners and the analysis of which revealed the high level of lead present in the composer's body.
Beethoven S Hair
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Author : Russell Martin
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2002-01-08
Beethoven S Hair written by Russell Martin and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer, snipping a lock of Beethoven's hair as a keepsake--as was custom at the time--in the process. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. After Fremming's death, his daughter assumed ownership of the lock, and eventually consigned it for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in 1994. Subsequently, they and others instituted a series of complex forensic tests in the hope of finding the probable causes of the composer's chronically bad health, his deafness, and the final demise that Ferdinand Hiller had witnessed all those years ago. The results, revealed for the first time here, are the most compelling explanation yet offered for why one of the foremost musicians the world has ever known was forced to spend much of his life in silence. In Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin has created a rich historical treasure hunt, a tale of false leads, amazing breakthroughs, and incredible revelations. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science.
Beethoven S Symphonies Critically Discussed
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Author : Alexander Teetgen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
Beethoven S Symphonies Critically Discussed written by Alexander Teetgen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with categories.
Beethoven S Skull
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Author : Tim Rayborn
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Beethoven S Skull written by Tim Rayborn and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Music categories.
Beethoven’s Skull is an unusual and often humorous survey of the many strange happenings in the history of Western classical music. Proving that good music and shocking tabloid-style stories make excellent bedfellows, it presents tales of revenge, murder, curious accidents, and strange fates that span more than two thousand years. Highlights include: A cursed song that kills those who hear it A composer who lovingly cradles the head of Beethoven’s corpse when his remains are exhumed half a century after his death A fifteenth-century German poet who sings of the real-life Dracula A dream of the devil that inspires a virtuoso violin piece Unlike many music books that begin their histories with the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries, Beethoven’s Skull takes the reader back to the world of ancient Greece and Rome, progressing through the Middle Ages and all the way into the twentieth century. It also looks at myths and legends, superstitions, and musical mysteries, detailing the ways that musicians and their peers have been rather horrible to one another over the centuries.