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| Author | : Felix Weingartner |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2013-03-21 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 048617476X |
Three important works by conductor Felix Weingartner (1863–1942) include a detailed account of performing difficulties and interpretation questions involved in each of Beethoven's symphonies, plus the essays "On Conducting" and "The Symphony Since Beethoven."
| Author | : Felix Weingartner |
| Publisher | : New York : E.F. Kalmus Orchestra Scores |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Conducting |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robin Stowell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1994-09-08 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780521416443 |
The ten essays in this volume explore different aspects of the performance of instrumental works by Beethoven. Each essay discusses performance issues from Beethoven's time to the present, whether the objective be to realise a performance in an historically appropriate manner, to elucidate the interpretation of Beethoven's music by conductors and performers, to clarify transcriptions by editors or to reconstruct the experience of the listener in various different periods. Four contributions focus on the piano music while another group concentrates on Beethoven's music for strings. These chapters are complemented by an examination of Beethoven's exploitation of the developing wind choir, an evaluation of early twentieth-century recordings as pointers to early nineteenth-century performance practice and an historical survey of rescorings in Beethoven's symphonies.
| Author | : Felix Weingartner |
| Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781230470436 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...from the similar passage in bar 17 of page 10. I have therefore added the following parts for the horn starting from the bar in question. p cresc. ff This is not absolutely necessary, but it seems rather strange to hear this passage which is raised a tone (ismajor in contradistinction to the preceding D major) without the ring of the horns, and to be forced to say that doubtless it was only a technical hindrance which caused this omission. The artistic conscience of the conductor must be the guide as to whether my suggestion should be adopted or not. Page 14, bars 9--16. For a careful performance I propose the following notation for violas and violins: VC Page 15, bars 4 and 5. The second horn plays the lower D. Page 16, bars 2 and 4. The trill should be taken without grace-note to the second crotchet of the last bar; it stops there, so that this crotchet is played simply, without shake. Page 16, bars 17--19. Second violins and violas come in here as a repeating continuation of the clarinets and bassoons. The following notation is therefore a suitable one: Page 19, bar 12. See page 6, bar 23. Page 22, bars 11 and following. The whole passage would be robbed of its character if it were to be hurried. The first time, taken in an easy manner, should be the standard to the end of the movement. Page 26. The second violins, the violas and the two muted violoncellos are apt to sound too loud in all the passages where they have figurations. The conductor should see that these instruments only form a background which brings into relief the tender light-pictures of the melodic parts. Great care must be taken not to let the time drag. The metronome-mark J = 50 is all that can be desired. Page 27, last bar but one. In order to allow the gently...
| Author | : Hector Berlioz |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780252069420 |
A daring composer in his own right, Hector Berlioz made a considerable reputation and a modest living for himself writing about music. This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.
| Author | : John Bell Young |
| Publisher | : Hal Leonard Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9781574671698 |
Ludwig Van Beethoven's nine symphonies stand as towering masterworks at the core of the classical canon. In Beethoven's hands, the symphony expanded dramatically in scope and power in a way that would revolutionise both the form itself and music in general. The impact of Beethoven's nine was such that composers long after him would write their own symphonies in his shadow. In this book, acclaimed Pianist and critic John Bell Young explores each of the nine symphonies, always looking beneath the surface for what makes the music so compelling. He places them in their historical and cultural context, and he describes how the Russian concept of intonatsiia, a way of perceiving relationships "between the notes," can help deepen our appreciation of these pieces. The accompanying CD contains selections from all of the symphonies, each performance conducted by the legendary Wilhelm Furtwangler.
| Author | : Felix Weingartner |
| Publisher | : New York : E.F. Kalmus Orchestra Scores |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : |
This is a 1906 guide to the art of performing Beethoven's symphonies written by Austrian conductor, composer and musician?Felix Weingartner.
| Author | : Richard Taruskin |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 391 |
| Release | : 1995-09-07 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0195357434 |
Over the last dozen years, the writings of Richard Taruskin have transformed the debate about "early music" and "authenticity." Text and Act collects for the first time the most important of Taruskin's essays and reviews from this period, many of which now classics in the field. Taking a wide-ranging cultural view of the phenomenon, he shows that the movement, far from reviving ancient traditions, in fact represents the only truly modern style of performance being offered today. He goes on to contend that the movement is therefore far more valuable and even authentic than the historical verisimilitude for which it ostensibly strives could ever be. These essays cast fresh light on many aspects of contemporary music-making and music-thinking, mixing lighthearted debunking with impassioned argumentation. Taruskin ranges from theoretical speculation to practical criticism, and covers a repertory spanning from Bach to Stravinsky. Including a newly written introduction, Text and Act collects the very best of one of our most incisive musical thinkers.
| Author | : Hugh Macdonald |
| Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781580462754 |
Essays by the noted authority on nineteenth-century music, the topics ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to comic opera to Scriabin and Janácek. In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, andhow today's audiences can usefully approach it. Opening with a revealing analysis of Beethoven's not always generous regard for his listeners, the essays probe aspects of Schubert's musical personality, the brief friendshipbetween Berlioz and Schumann, Liszt's abilities as a conductor, and Viennese views of Wagner as expressed by Hugo Wolf. Essays on comic opera and trends in French opera libretti in the late nineteenth century reflect the author's long-standing sympathy for French music, and strikingly eccentric personalities in the world of music, such as Paganini, Alkan, Skryabin, and Janácek, are brought to life. Beethoven's Century concludes with a wrylook at some startling developments in early twentieth-century music that have often been overlooked. Hugh Macdonald has taught music at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Glasgow, and since 1987 has been Avis H. Blewett Distinguished Professor of Music at Washington University, St. Louis. He has written books on Skryabin and Berlioz, and is a regular pre-concert speaker for the Boston and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras.
