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Summary:

Review: "Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played and how today's audiences can usefully approach it." "Beethoven's Century concludes with a wry look at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked."--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Composers. Beethoven's game of cat and mouse ; Schubert's pendulum ; Paganini, Mendelssohn and Turner in Scotland ; Berlioz and Schumann ; Alkan's instruments ; Liszt the conductor ; Wolf's Wagner ; Massenet's craftsmanship ; Skryabin's conquest of time ; Janáček's narratives
• Themes. Raise your glass to French music! ; Comic opera ; Repeats ; [G-flat major, 9/8 meter] ; The musicians' arrondissement ; Les anglais ; Dr. Mephistopheles ; The prose libretto ; 'Un pays où tous sont musiciens
• ' ; Modernisms that failed.

Author/Creator:

Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Beethoven's century: essays on composers and themes [by Macdonald, H.]

Related Series:

Eastman studies in music (Complete); v. 56

Subjects:

Music — 19th century — History and criticism

Genres:

Music criticism and reviews

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

ML196 .M33 2008

ISBNs:

9781580462754 (hardcover, alk. paper)
1580462758

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007050267

OCLC Numbers:

183610689