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Author | : Ludwig van Beethoven |
Publisher | : Schott Music |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 3795728274 |
Download My First Beethoven Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote numerous piano pieces to teach to his pupils. Still, today, his works are an integral part of piano lessons. My first Beethoven is perfect for pianists of every age to become acquainted with these works. This volume contains Beethoven's most popular and easiest piano pieces – from the frequently played Sonatinas in G and F major to Für Eliseand the famous Moonlight Sonata. Ideal for music lessons and music-making at home! Great works for little masters!
Author | : Jan Swafford |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 1107 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 061805474X |
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The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
Author | : David Dutkanicz |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 50 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486171671 |
Download A First Book of Ragtime Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.
Author | : Paul Griffiths |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 168137580X |
Download Mr. Beethoven Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job. It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffiths’s ingenious novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee its first performance. Griffiths grants the composer a few extra years of life and, starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man. Relying entirely on historically attested possibilities to develop the plot, Griffiths shows Beethoven learning a form of sign language, struggling to rein in the uncertain inspiration of Reverend Ballou (his designated librettist), and finding a kindred spirit in the widowed Mrs. Hill, all the while keeping his hosts guessing as to whether he will come through with his promised composition. (And just what, the reader also wonders, will this new piece by Beethoven turn out to be?) The book that emerges is an improvisation, as virtuosic as it is delicate, on a historical theme.
Author | : Jonah Winter |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307554007 |
Download The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : John Clubbe |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019-07-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0393242560 |
Download Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Scott Burnham |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000-04-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780691050584 |
Download Beethoven Hero Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners because it projects an empowering sense of self, destiny, and freedom, while modeling ironic self-consciousness. In addition to thus identifying Beethoven's music as an overarching expression of values central to the age of Goethe and Hegel, the author describes and then critiques the process by which the musical values of the heroic style quickly became the controlling model of compositional logic in Western music criticism and analysis. Apart from its importance for students of Beethoven, this book will appeal to those interested in canon formation in the arts and in music as a cultural, ethical, and emotional force--and to anyone concerned with what we want from music and what music does for us.
Author | : Jessica Duchen |
Publisher | : Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1789651166 |
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Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
Author | : George Grove |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1962-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486203344 |
Download Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Classic of music analysis by a noted musicologist for those with a serious interest in Beethoven's symphonies. Fascinating background on composer's historical era, plus quotations, letters, and anecdotes. Includes 436 musical passages.
Author | : Lewis Lockwood |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2005-01-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393326381 |
Download Beethoven: The Music and the Life Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's great works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.