Beethoven the European - Malcolm Miller
Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception
KORTE INHOUD
Beethoven's music, stemming from its 18th- and 19th-century European context, communicates values of the Enlightenment bearing a seemingly universal, timeless significance. More than a quarter millenium after his birth, a 21st-century perspective offers a timely opportunity - against a backdrop of the reconfiguration of Europe and tensional power shifts across continents - to explore ways in which notions of European ideals impacted the works of Beethoven and his contemporaries and which social-political contexts shaped its reception. The essays in this volume offer cutting-edge research shedding new light on varied aspects of Beethoven's music, and the ways it has been adapted and adopted by the musical world up to the present-day. Foremost international experts and younger scholars, gathered together with the editors William Kinderman and Malcolm Miller, share insights about Beethoven reception both within and beyond Europe, covering France, Italy, Britain, Spain, the USA and Japan. Innovative contextual st...
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2023Uitgever: Brepols Publishers410 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 2503602908ISBN-13: 9782503602905Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary Beethoven's music, stemming from its 18th- and 19th-century European context, communicates values of the Enlightenment bearing a seemingly universal, timeless significance. More than a quarter millenium after his birth, a 21st-century perspective offers a timely opportunity ? against a backdrop of the reconfiguration of Europe and tensional power shifts across continents ? to explore ways in which notions of European ideals impacted the works of Beethoven and his contemporaries and which social-pol...
