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“When Will The Time Finally Come When There Will Only Be Humans”: An Unknown Letter From Beethoven To Heinrich Von Struve, Julia Ronge
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
Transcription, translation, and discussion of a recently discovered letter from Ludwig van Beethoven to Heinrich von Struve from 1795. In the letter, Beethoven expresses a yearning for a time when there are only humans, without distinctions of rank and class. This sentiment accords with Schiller’s ode An die Freude, which Beethoven set to music more than once.
From “Radical Blunders” To Compositional Solutions: A Form-Functional Perspective On Beethoven’S Early Eroica Continuity-Sketches, Thomas Posen
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
Beethoven’s sketches to his third symphony, the Eroica, have fascinated scholars since Nottebohm’s pioneering study of the Eroica Sketchbook in the late nineteenth century. More recently, Alan Gosman and Lewis Lockwood finished a complete transcription of the sketchbook, which has led to a resurgent interest in these sketches. In this article, I re-evaluate Beethoven’s approaches to composing the first movement of the Eroica symphony by reappraising two supposed problems with the first two exposition continuity-sketches. Contrary to prior studies, which have interpreted these reputed compositional problems as “failed experiments” or “radical blunders” (Tovey 1941, 80), I interpret them …
“The Bonn Master-Baker Gottfried Fischer’S Reminiscences Of Beethoven’S Youth” [Des Bonner Bäckermeisters Gottfried Fischer Aufzeichnungen Über Beethovens Jugend]. Translated Into English, With Editorial Commentary And Notes., Susan Cooper
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
No abstract provided.
Review Of Beethoven 1806 By Mark Ferraguto, Desmond Sheehan
Review Of Beethoven 1806 By Mark Ferraguto, Desmond Sheehan
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
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Review Of Beethoven Studies 4, Ed. Keith Chapin And David Wyn Jones, Nicholas Chong
Review Of Beethoven Studies 4, Ed. Keith Chapin And David Wyn Jones, Nicholas Chong
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
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Review Of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Symphonien V: Nr. 9 D-Moll Opus 125, Ed. Beate Angelika Kraus, Barry Cooper
Review Of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Symphonien V: Nr. 9 D-Moll Opus 125, Ed. Beate Angelika Kraus, Barry Cooper
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
No abstract provided.