Ignition: Beethoven
Reception Documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2020
220 pages
978-1-80010-342-9 (ISBN)
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This book accompanies the Paul Sacher Foundation's exhibition at the Bonn Beethovenhaus. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, composers have referred to Beethoven in their music. The volume explores this subject and illustrates it with documents from the Foundation's archives in Basel.
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Meyer Felix:
FELIX MEYER has been the director of the Paul Sacher Foundation since 1999. He has edited several books, most recently a facsimile of Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (2018). For The Boydell Press he edited Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction 1900-2000 (with Carol J. Oja, Wolfgang Rathert, and Anne C. Shreffler, 2014) and Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents (with Anne C. Shreffler, 2008).Obert Simon:
SIMON OBERT is a scholarly staff member and curator at the Paul Sacher Foundation. Most recently he edited the volume Re-Set: Rückgriffe und Fortschreibungen in der Musik seit 1900 (with Heidy Zimmermann, 2018). He is also a member of the directory of the Anton Webern Complete Edition.
FELIX MEYER has been the director of the Paul Sacher Foundation since 1999. He has edited several books, most recently a facsimile of Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (2018). For The Boydell Press he edited Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction 1900-2000 (with Carol J. Oja, Wolfgang Rathert, and Anne C. Shreffler, 2014) and Elliott Carter: A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents (with Anne C. Shreffler, 2008).Obert Simon:
SIMON OBERT is a scholarly staff member and curator at the Paul Sacher Foundation. Most recently he edited the volume Re-Set: Rückgriffe und Fortschreibungen in der Musik seit 1900 (with Heidy Zimmermann, 2018). He is also a member of the directory of the Anton Webern Complete Edition.
Content
- Front cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH BEETHOVEN
- Matthias Schmidt "As Eurydice was seen" Beethoven and the Teaching of Composition after 1900
- Henry Brant Arrangement of the "Hammerklavier" Sonata, op. 106(c. 1935)
- Edgard Varèse Lecture in Santa Fe (1937)
- Bruno Maderna Orchestration of the Piano Sonata, op. 7, movt. 1(c. 1937-38)
- Earle Brown Analysis of the Piano Sonata, op. 81a (c. 1949)
- György Ligeti The System of Classical Harmony (1956)
- György Kurtág Analysis of the String Quartet, op. 132, movt. 1(early 1960s)
- 2. IDEALIZATIONS
- Michelle Ziegler Lofty Values, Empty Words Ideological Levels in the Reception of Beethoven
- Anton Webern Diary Entry (1904)
- Charles Ives Concord Sonata (c. 1915-19)
- Ivan Wyschnegradsky "The Life of Beethoven"(1918)
- Richard Strauss Metamorphosen (1944-45)
- Rolf Liebermann Leonore 40/45(1951-52)
- George Rochberg "Passions According to the Twentieth Century"(1967)
- Helmut Lachenmann Staub (1985-87)
- 3. STRATEGIES OF REFERENCE
- Simone Hohmaier "You can only lose against Beethoven"?1Modes of Reception in Twentiethand Twenty-First-Century Composition
- Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3(1945)
- Cristóbal Halffter String Quartet No. 2, Mémoires 1970(1970)
- Dieter Schnebel BeethovenSymphonie (1985)
- Aribert Reimann Nahe Ferne (2002-03)
- Jürg Wyttenbach Completed Sketches for the Piano Sonata, op. 109(2005-06)
- Heinz Holliger 75th Variation (2010)
- Kaija Saariaho Chimera (2019)
- 4. DISTORTION -DISMANTLEMENT
- Esteban Buch Beethoven at 200+50The Changing Meaning of Commemorations
- Igor Stravinsky Souvenir d'une marche boche (1915)
- Mauricio Kagel Ludwig van (1969-70)
- Louis Andriessen De negen symfonieën van Beethoven (1970)
- Luciano Berio "Amores"(early 1970s)
- Cathy Berberian Trennung von dem Geliebten (1970s and 80s)
- György Ligeti Le Grand Macabre (1974-77)
- Exhibits
- Contributors
- Index
