Beethoven: His Role in the Rise of Romanticism in Music - Couverture souple

Travell, Jeremy P.

 
9781910757857: Beethoven: His Role in the Rise of Romanticism in Music

Synopsis

Beethoven’s sheer force of musical personality has influenced the history of Western music, not only altering the music that composers have written but also transforming their perception of what a composer should be like and what his or her function in society should be.

What follows is a reasonably straightforward, though unavoidably shortened introduction to some of Beethoven’s compositions, slanted towards a handful of concise musical analyses. However, you will catch a glimpse of Beethoven the individual, as shown by those who knew him and the events of the time.

At the age of nine Jeremy Travell won a choral scholarship to Exeter Cathedral choir school to become a chorister. After graduating from University with Honours he taught piano and has a particular interest in the performance, practice and technique of Messiaen’s piano music. The author studied for an MPhil and PhD between 1998 and 2003.

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