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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Caeyers, Jan (1953-....)
Titre(s) : Beethoven [Texte imprimé] : a life / Jan Caeyers ; translated by Brent Annable
Traduction de : Beethoven : een biografie
Publication : Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020
Description matérielle : xxiv, 630 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Originally published as Beethoven : een biografie by De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, ©2009
by Jan Caeyers. - "Roth Family Foundation imprint in music.". - Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-610) and indexes
Translated from the Dutch.
"This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike
an unparalleled story of the composer's life and works, written by a renowned conductor
and scholar of Beethoven's music. With unprecedented access to the archives at the
Beethoven House in Bonn, Jan Caeyers expertly weaves together a deeply human and complex
picture of Beethoven-his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires,
relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his
affair with the 'immortal beloved,' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers
also offers new insights into Beethoven's music, showing how it transformed from the
work of a skilled craftsman to that of a consummate artist. Demonstrating an impressive
command of the vast scholarship on this iconic composer, Caeyers brings Beethoven's
world alive with elegant prose, memorable musical descriptions, and a vivid depiction
of Bonn and Vienna, where Beethoven produced and performed his works. Caeyers explores
how Beethoven's career was impacted by the historical and philosophical shifts taking
place in the music world and how, in turn, his trajectory changed the music industry.
Equal parts an absorbing cultural history and a lively biography, Beethoven, A Life
reveals a complex portrait of the musical genius that defined a style of music and
went on to become one of the great pillars of Western art music"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Annable, Brent. Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520343542. - ISBN 0520343549. - ISBN 9780520975026 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466772857
Notice n° :
FRBNF46677285
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / / by Daniel Hope ; ; Part one.. The artist as a young man (1770-1792).
; Louis van Beethoven: a grandfather figure -- ; Jean van Beethoven: the absent father?
-- ; The early years -- ; Christian Gottlob Neefe: the mentor -- ; The young professional
-- ; Bonn turns to Vienna -- ; Beethoven's first crisis -- ; A second home, and new
horizons -- ; Renewed vigor and the first major works -- ; Farewell to Bonn -- ; Part
two.. A time of proving (1792-1802). ; Vienna in 1792 -- ; Beethoven's first patron:
Karl von Lichnowsky -- ; Haydn and Albrechtsberger -- ; Career plans -- ; Family,
friends, and loves in Vienna -- ; In anticipation of greater things -- ; Lobkowitz's
"Center of excellence" -- ; The immortal beloved: episode one -- ; The road to a broader
public -- ; A word from the critics -- ; The disciples: Carl Czerny and Ferdinand
Ries -- ; The Heiligenstadt Testament -- ; Part three.. The master (1802-1809). ;
A "new way" forward -- ; The Laboratorium Artificiosum -- ; Publishing pains and the
"Warehouse of the arts" -- ; Composer in residence -- ; Salieri's opera lessons --
; The mystery of the Eroica -- ; The immortal beloved: episode two -- ; In search
of the perfect piano -- ; Leonore: a work in progress -- ; The golden years -- ; Part
four.. Crowds and power (1809-1816). ; A new social status -- ; New prospects -- ;
An imperial pupil -- ; Beethoven and Goethe -- ; The immortal beloved: episode three
-- ; Se non è vero -- ; The end of the classical symphony -- ; Music for the masses
-- ; A lucrative sideline -- ; From Leonore to Fidelio -- ; From coffee and cake to
congress and kitsch -- ; The fight for a child --- ; From the "immortal beloved" to
a "distant beloved" -- ; Part five.. The lonely way (1816-1827). ; Longing for greater
things -- ; Post-Congress Vienna -- ; London plans -- ; A Faustian sonata and a diabolical
contraption -- ; The Missa solemnis: a mass for peace -- ; The circle is complete:
the late piano works -- ; Estrangement -- ; Encounters with the younger generation
-- ; An ode to joy -- ; Decline -- ; Karl's emancipation -- ; Money matters -- ; The
discovery of heaven: the late string quartets -- ; Comoedia finita est.
