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Beethoven: Variations on a Life
Engelsk Hardback
Beethoven: Variations on a Life
Engelsk Hardback

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Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer''s life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or 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-pleasing Wellington''s Victory. Beethoven''s works, Bonds argues, are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and project through his music. The supposedly characteristic furrowed brow and frown, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, Bonds proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
160
ISBN-13:
9780190054083
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190054085
Udg. Dato:
24 sep 2020
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
149mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
24 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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