| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Reveals the importance of arrangements of Beethoven's works for nineteenth-century domestic music-making to the history of the classical symphony |
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Early nineteenth-century composers, publishers and writers evolved influential ideals of Beethoven's symphonies as untouchable masterpieces. Meanwhile, many and various arrangements of symphonies, principally for amateur performers, supported diverse and 'hands-on' cultivation of the same works. Now mostly forgotten, these arrangements served a vital function in nineteenth-century musical life, extending works' meanings and reach, especially to women in the home. This book places domestic music-making back into the history of the classical symphony. It investigates a largely untapped wealth of early nineteenth-century arrangements of symphonies by Beethoven - for piano, string quartet, mixed quintet and other ensembles. The study focuses on three key agents in the nineteenth-century culture of musical arrangement: arrangers, publishers and performers. It investigates significant functions of those musical arrangements in the era: sociability, reception and canon formation. The volume also explores how conceptions of Beethoven's symphonies, and their arrangement, changed across the era with changing conception of musical works |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 29, 2021) |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies.
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| SUBJECT |
Symphonies (Beethoven, Ludwig van) fast |
| Subject |
Symphonies (Chamber orchestra), Arranged -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Symphonies (Chamber orchestra), Arranged
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1108934838 |
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9781108924207 |
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1108924204 |
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9781108934831 |
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