Autograph Letter Signed From Beethoven To Franz Brentano Dated Feb 15 1817 Brandenburg No 1083
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Author | : Ludwig van Beethoven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1817 |
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Exhibit text: This letter documents the warm feelings that Beethoven continued to feel for the family of Franz and Antonie Brentano long after they had moved back to Frankfurt from Vienna in 1812. According to some sources, Antonie (1780-1869) first met Beethoven at some point in the 1790s while living with her parents in Vienna. In 1806 she married Franz and moved to Frankfurt. Three years later her father became very ill, and she returned to Vienna to spend the last few weeks of his life with him. She remained until 1812 to complete the complicated task of settling his estate. During the years 1810-12, she and her family became close to the composer. Beethoven visited them, attended concerts at their home, played for them, and played with their children. Because she was often ill, Beethoven used to come and improvise for her in her anteroom to, in Antonie's words, U+0032tell me everything and offer me comfort.U+0033 In 1819 Antonie described Beethoven as U+0032guileless, straightforward, wise, and wholly benevolent.U+0033 Beethoven begins the letter by stating that he had sent several of his musical works to them U+0032in order to recall myself to your friendly remembrance, all the members of the Brentano family remain always dear to me, and especially shall I always remember you, my honored friend [Franz], with true respect, I even wish that you may believe how often I have prayed to heaven for the long continuance of your life, so that you long may be a useful and honored head of your family.U+0033 Later he writes, U+0032I really very much miss my contacts with you as well as your wife and dear children, for where would I be able to find something similar here in Vienna I therefore seldom go out, for I have always found it impossible to associate with men unless a certain interchange of ideas is possible.U+0033 Complicating our understanding of the letter is the fact that Antonie is one of the leading contenders as the solution to the riddle of the U+0032Immortal Beloved,U+0033 with whom Beethoven was in love in 1812. If she was the Immortal Beloved, Beethoven's affectionate words about the entire family were not certainly not U+0032guileless,U+0033 U+0032straightforward,U+0033 or U+0032wholely benevolent.U+0033
Author | : Edwin Emerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 674 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
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Author | : Roger Paulin |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1909254959 |
This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent.
Author | : Armand Edwards Singer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Douglas Johnson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 693 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
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ISBN | : 0520324161 |
Author | : Glenn Stanley |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780803242678 |
Glenn Stanley opens Beethoven Forum 6 with a consideration of the “piano sonata culture” of the late eighteenth century and how Beethoven’s sonatas influenced this culture. Lawrence Kramer explores the "Tempest" sonata and the way it exemplifies "one of the leading intellectual projects of the Enlightenment, the project of speculative anthropology or 'universal history.'" Elaine R. Sisman examines the "lyrical," "small-scale" sonatas of Beethoven’s middle period in relation to his renewed preoccupation with the idea of "fantasia." Nicholas Marston concludes the volume’s consideration of the piano sonatas with a study of the development of a musical idea in the "Hammerklavier" sonata. Birgit Lodes examines the relationship between the human and the divine as they are represented in the Gloria of Beethoven’s great mass, the Missa solemnis. In a second article on this late masterpiece, Norbert Gertsch describes a subscription copy of the Missa solemnis—a copy that Beethoven had corrected—and its significance for a future scholarly edition of the work. Maynard Solomon offers a commentary, transcription, and translation of a papal document concerning the marriage of Beethoven’s great-uncle Cornelius. In a review article, Nicholas Marston discusses the recent edition of the Landsberg 5 sketchbook and future prospects for sketchbook editions. Robert Levin concludes the volume with a review of Performing Beethoven, edited by Robin Stowell.
Author | : Scott Burnham |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2000-04-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780691050584 |
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 | : John E. Cooney |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.
Author | : Robert Curry |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781580462853 |
Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on theliving "canonical" repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music. However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the modern Western musical tradition. Contributors: Pierre Boulez, Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian Rushton, David Schulenberg, László Somfai, Leo Treitler, James Webster, and Robert Winter. Robert Curry is principalof the Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is Assistant Professor of Music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.
Author | : Angelos Chaniotis |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470775211 |
Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. An overview of war and society in the Hellenistic world. Highlights the interdependence of warfare and social phenomena. Covers a wide range of topics, including social conditions as causes of war, the role of professional warriors, the discourse of war in Hellenistic cities, the budget of war, the collective memory of war, and the aesthetics of war. Draws on the abundance of primary sources available.