The Beethoven Quartet Companion
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2023
300 pages
978-0-520-91750-7 (ISBN)
Description
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works.
This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general perspectives: Who has the quartets' audience been? How were the quartets performed before the era of sound recordings? What is the relationship between "classical" and "romantic" in the quartets? How was their reception affected by social and economic history? What sorts of interpretive decisions are made by performers today?
The Companion brings together a matchless group of Beethoven experts. Joseph Kerman is perhaps the world's most renowned Beethoven scholar. Robert Winter, an authority on sketches for the late quartets, has created interactive programs regarded as milestones in multimedia publishing. Maynard Solomon has written an acclaimed biography of Beethoven. Leon Botstein is the conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra as well as a distinguished social historian and college president. Robert Martin writes from his experience as cellist of the Sequoia Quartet. And the book is anchored by the program notes of Michael Steinberg, who has served as Artistic Advisor of the San Francisco Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works.
This collection offers Beethoven lovers bot
This collection offers Beethoven lovers both detailed notes on the listening experience of each quartet and a stimulating range of more general perspectives: Who has the quartets' audience been? How were the quartets performed before the era of sound recordings? What is the relationship between "classical" and "romantic" in the quartets? How was their reception affected by social and economic history? What sorts of interpretive decisions are made by performers today?
The Companion brings together a matchless group of Beethoven experts. Joseph Kerman is perhaps the world's most renowned Beethoven scholar. Robert Winter, an authority on sketches for the late quartets, has created interactive programs regarded as milestones in multimedia publishing. Maynard Solomon has written an acclaimed biography of Beethoven. Leon Botstein is the conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra as well as a distinguished social historian and college president. Robert Martin writes from his experience as cellist of the Sequoia Quartet. And the book is anchored by the program notes of Michael Steinberg, who has served as Artistic Advisor of the San Francisco Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
While the Beethoven string quartets are to chamber music what the plays of Shakespeare are to drama, even seasoned concertgoers will welcome guidance with these personal and sometimes enigmatic works.
This collection offers Beethoven lovers bot
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Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Perspectives
Beethoven Quartet Audiences: Actual, Potential, Ideal
JOSEPH KERMAN
Performing the Beethoven Quartets in Their First Century
ROBERT WINTER
Beethoven: Beyond Classicism
MAYNARD SOLOMON
The Patrons and Publics of the Quartets: Music, Culture, and
Society in Beethoven's Vienna
LEON BOTSTEIN
The Quartets in Performance: A Player's Perspective
ROBERT MARTIN
Notes on the Quartets
MICHAEL STEINBERG
The Early Quartets
String Quartet in F Major, after the Piano Sonata in E Major,
Op. 14 no. I
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 no. I
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 no. 2
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 no. 3
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 no. 4
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 no. 6
The Middle Quartets
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 no. I
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 no. 2
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 no. 3
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, Quartett[o] serioso
The Late Quartets
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 127
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130
String Quartet inC-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
Grosse Fuge for String Quartet, Op. I33
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
Glossary
Index
Introduction
Perspectives
Beethoven Quartet Audiences: Actual, Potential, Ideal
JOSEPH KERMAN
Performing the Beethoven Quartets in Their First Century
ROBERT WINTER
Beethoven: Beyond Classicism
MAYNARD SOLOMON
The Patrons and Publics of the Quartets: Music, Culture, and
Society in Beethoven's Vienna
LEON BOTSTEIN
The Quartets in Performance: A Player's Perspective
ROBERT MARTIN
Notes on the Quartets
MICHAEL STEINBERG
The Early Quartets
String Quartet in F Major, after the Piano Sonata in E Major,
Op. 14 no. I
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18 no. I
String Quartet in G Major, Op. 18 no. 2
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 no. 3
String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18 no. 4
String Quartet in A Major, Op. 18 no. 5
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 18 no. 6
The Middle Quartets
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 no. I
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 no. 2
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 no. 3
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 74
String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95, Quartett[o] serioso
The Late Quartets
String Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 127
String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130
String Quartet inC-Sharp Minor, Op. 131
String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
Grosse Fuge for String Quartet, Op. I33
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135
Glossary
Index
