Beethoven

Download or read book Beethoven written by Jan Swafford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.

Download or read book The 39 Apartments of Ludwig Van Beethoven written by Jonah Winter and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.

Download or read book A First Book of Ragtime written by David Dutkanicz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.

Download or read book Hearing Beethoven written by Robin Wallace and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace demystifies the narratives of Beethoven’s approach to his hearing loss and instead explores how Beethoven did not "conquer" his deafness; he adapted to life with it. We’re all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven’s response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven’s music. Perhaps no one is better positioned to help us do so than Robin Wallace, who not only has dedicated his life to the music of Beethoven but also has close personal experience with deafness. One day, Wallace’s late wife, Barbara, found she couldn’t hear out of her right ear—the result of radiation administered to treat a brain tumor early in life. Three years later, she lost hearing in her left ear as well. Over the eight and a half years that remained of her life, despite receiving a cochlear implant, Barbara didn’t overcome her deafness or ever function again like a hearing person. Wallace shows here that Beethoven didn’t do those things, either. Rather than heroically overcoming his deafness, Beethoven accomplished something even more challenging: he adapted to his hearing loss and changed the way he interacted with music, revealing important aspects of its very nature in the process. Wallace tells the story of Beethoven’s creative life, interweaving it with his and Barbara’s experience to reveal aspects that only living with deafness could open up. The resulting insights make Beethoven and his music more accessible and help us see how a disability can enhance human wholeness and flourishing.

Download or read book Mein erster Beethoven written by Wilhelm Ohmen and published by . This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano). 22 intermediate and early advanced-level selections, including Fur Elise, Six Ecossaises, various German Dances, Bagatelles, Sonatines, and more. Contents: Ecossaise in E-flat Major, WoO86 * German Dance in C Major, WoO8 * German Dance in F Major, WoO8 * German Dance in G Major, WoO8 * Landler Dance in D Major, WoO 11/1 * Landler Dance in D Major, WoO 11/3 * Landler Dance in D Major, WoO 11/5 * Landler Dance in D Major, WoO 11/6 * Landler Dance in D Major, WoO 15/2 * German Dance in A Major WoO 42/4 * Allemande, WoO 81 * Minuet in F Major * Happy-Sad WoO 54 * Fur Elise, WoO 59 * Sonatina in G Major - Moderato, Romance * Sonatina in G Major - Allegro Assai, Rondo * Easy Sonata in G Major, Op. 59, No. 2 - Allegro ma non troppo, Tempo di Minuetto * Six Ecossaises, WoO 83 * Bagatelle in D Major, Op. 33, No. 6 * Bagatelle in G minor, Op. 119/1 * Six Variations in G Major, WoO 70 * Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2

Download or read book Beethoven's String Quartets written by Phillip Radcliffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-09-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beethoven's string quartets form one of the most intimate and revealing sections of his output, giving a full and varied picture of his musical personality. This study of the quartets by Philip Radcliffe, first published by Hutchinson University in 1965, was reissued by Cambridge University Press in 1978. Each work is examined in detail describing the development of Beethoven's style - a method that highlights the very strong individuality that remained unimpaired throughout the composition of these quartets. They are compared with Beethoven's other music and with the string quartets of composers before and since. This is a book which has proved itself to be of continuing value to the student of music at school and university level and to the general reader.

Download or read book Beethoven's Diabelli Variations written by William Kinderman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extended study of the compositional origins of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations explores the piece in the context of his other late period works and demonstrates how the composer transforms, parodies, and transcends Diabelli's waltz. Providing insight into his working method, this discussion illuminates the structure of the finished work, and the nature of Beethoven's creative process.