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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The status of Beethoven's symphonies is ingrained in Western culture, but very little is known about the environment in which the composer wrote them. David Wyn
Language: en
Pages: 135
Pages: 135
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-30 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
When Ludwig van Beethoven chose singers for the first performance of his last symphony he did so for reasons other than their voices; he could not hear them. Ka
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-11-08 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most
Language: en
Pages: 254
Pages: 254
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"It was high time that someone tried to explain more fully, and on the basis of the known documents, the course of Beethoven's meteoric rise to fame in Vienna a
Language: en
Pages: 289
Pages: 289
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one. This book explores the history of music in Vienna, focussing on three different epochs, 1700, 1800 and