The Life of BeethovenCambridge University Press, 19. nov. 1998 - 204 sider 'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges. |
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The young courtier | 1 |
A new career in Vienna | 28 |
Cursing his creator and his existence | 55 |
Drama and symphony | 74 |
Patrons and patriotism | 102 |
Empires of the mind | 125 |
Towards a public comeback | 144 |
Facing death | 171 |
Notes | 184 |
Annotated Bibliography | 191 |
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