The Beethoven Sketchbooks

The Beethoven Sketchbooks
Author: Douglas Porter Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520048355

A comprehensive description of Beethoven's sketchbooks--bound books of music paper in which Beethoven made sketches for his compositions from about 1798--has been long felt by Beethoven scholars. Although almost all the sketchbooks have survived in one form or another, it became clear in the 1960s that they were in a state of disarray. A reconstruction of their original condition was essential to the proper study of their musical contents.

The Beethoven Violin Sonatas

The Beethoven Violin Sonatas
Author: Lewis Lockwood
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780252029325

"Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll's volume The Beethoven Violin Sonatas is the first scholarly book in English devoted exclusively to the Beethoven sonatas and deals with them in unprecedented depth. Serving readers, listeners, and performers as a companion to the sonatas, it presents seven critical and historical essays by some of the most important American and European Beethoven specialists of our time.

The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830

The Age of Beethoven, 1790-1830
Author: Gerald Abraham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 774
Release: 1982
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780193163089

Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.