Beethoven's Piano Sonatas

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas
Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 030019613X

Beethoven’s piano sonatas form one of the most important collections of works in the whole history of music. Spanning several decades of his life as a composer, the sonatas soon came to be seen as the first body of substantial serious works for piano suited to performance in large concert halls seating hundreds of people. In this comprehensive and authoritative guide, Charles Rosen places the works in context and provides an understanding of the formal principles involved in interpreting and performing this unique repertoire, covering such aspects as sonata form, phrasing, and tempo, as well as the use of pedal and trills. In the second part of his book, he looks at the sonatas individually, from the earliest works of the 1790s through the sonatas of Beethoven’s youthful popularity of the early 1800s, the subsequent years of mastery, the years of stress (1812†“1817), and the last three sonatas of the 1820s. Composed as much for private music-making as public recital, Beethoven’s sonatas have long formed a bridge between the worlds of the salon and the concert hall. For today’s audience, Rosen has written a guide that brings out the gravity, passion, and humor of these works and will enrich the appreciation of a wide range of readers, whether listeners, amateur musicians, or professional pianists. The book includes a CD of Rosen performing extracts from several of the sonatas, illustrating points made in the text.

Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Author: Robert Taub
Publisher: Amadeus
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Sonatas (Piano)
ISBN: 9781574671780

Acclaimed pianist Robert Taub offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert worldwide bringing a fresh perspective on Beethoven as the ÊNew York TimesÊ put it. In this book he shares his intimate understanding of these works with listeners and players alike.

Complete pianoforte sonatas

Complete pianoforte sonatas
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1991
Genre: Sonatas (Piano)
ISBN:

Published within the Signature Series, this series of performing editions of standard keyboard works includes informative introductions and performance notes.

Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas

Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas
Author: Stewart Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0190629185

In Beethoven's 32 Piano Sonatas, renowned performer and pedagogue Stewart Gordon addresses textual issues, Beethoven's pianos, performance practices, composer's indications, and the composer's development, pointing to patterns of structure, sonority, keyboard technique, and emotional meaning. In addition, each sonata appears in a helpful outline-chart format for easy-access reference.

Analysis of Form

Analysis of Form
Author: Henry Alfred Harding
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-11-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781505289879

The Analysis of Form as Displayed in Beethoven's Thirty-Two Pianoforte Sonatas has description of each movement as well as the specific forms of Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation. One of the most important reprints of Beethoven, this is the original Novello Plates from 1900. First Edition Fleury printing.

The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas

The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas
Author: Barry Cooper
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2017-04-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317037081

Beethoven’s piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have been the subject of much scholarship, but no single study gives an adequate account of the processes by which these sonatas were composed and published. With source materials such as sketches and correspondence increasingly available, the time is ripe for a close study of the history of these works. Barry Cooper, who in 2007 produced a new edition of all 35 sonatas, including three that are often overlooked, examines each sonata in turn, addressing questions such as: Why were they written? Why did they turn out as they did? How did they come into being and how did they reach their final form? Drawing on the composer’s sketches, autograph scores and early printed editions, as well as contextual material such as correspondence, Cooper explores the links between the notes and symbols found in the musical texts of the sonatas, and the environment that brought them about. The result is a biography not of the composer, but of the works themselves.

Complete piano sonatas: No. 16-32

Complete piano sonatas: No. 16-32
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 338
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486231356

The music for the piano sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven are accompanied by extensive critical notes

Beethoven’s Dedications

Beethoven’s Dedications
Author: Artur Pereira
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0429997876

The dedication of a piece of music is a feature generally overlooked, but it can reveal a great deal about the work, the composer, the society and the music world in which the composer lived. This book explores the musical, biographical and sociological aspects of the practice of dedicating new compositions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and makes a significant contribution towards a better understanding of the impact these tributes had on Beethoven’s life and work, and their function within the context of the musical, cultural and economic environments in which they appeared. As the first of its kind, this study demonstrates that, as a result of their different functions, published dedications and handwritten inscriptions are distinct from one another, and for that reason they have been classified in different categories. This book, therefore, challenges the idea of what exactly can be termed as a ‘dedication’, a concept which extends far beyond the dedication of musical works.