Beethoven · the Music and the Life by Lockwood, Lewis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Title Page Dedication Contents Illustrations Preface Prologue. Youth, Maturity, Old Age: Three Letters

1787: The Death of Beethoven’s Mother 1812: Letter to a Child 1826: The Old Child Life and Works

PART ONE: THE EARLY YEARS 1770–1792

1. Beginnings

Bonn as a Musical Center Bach from the Hands of Neefe Kant, Schiller, and the Enlightenment Max Franz and the Mozart Legacy Family, Friends, and Patrons To Vienna in Search of Mozart The Last Years in Bonn Waldstein’s Prophecy

2. Music of the Bonn Years

Early Keyboard Music “This passage has been stolen from Mozart” Composing and Sketching Cantatas for Two Emperors

PART TWO: THE FIRST MATURITY 1792–1802

3. The First Years in Vienna

The Political Atmosphere Vienna as a Musical Center Confronting the Viennese Aristocracy Haydn Playing for an Elector and a King Entering the Publishing World

4. Music of the First Vienna Years

Revising Earlier Works Chamber Music and Piano Sonatas

5. Years of Crisis

Deafness The Heiligenstadt Testament

6. Music for and with Piano

The “New Way” and the Early Sketchbooks A Laboratory of Invention: More Piano Sonatas From Convention to Originality: Piano Variations New Violin Sonatas The Earlier Piano Concertos

7. Music for Orchestra and the First Quartets

The First Symphony and the Prometheus Ballet The French Dimension and Military Music The Second Symphony Opus 18: “I have now learned how to write string quartets”

8. The First Maturity: An Overview

PART THREE: THE SECOND MATURITY 1802–1812

9. Beethoven in the New Age

Napoleon and Self-Made Greatness Beethoven and His Milieu Relations with Women

10. New Symphonic Ideals

The Heroic and the Beautiful The Third Symphony (Eroica) The Fourth Symphony The Fifth and Sixth (“Pastoral”) Symphonies The Seventh and Eighth Symphonies

11. The Mature Concertos

The New Symphonie concertante: The Triple Concerto The Fourth Piano Concerto The Violin Concerto The “Emperor” Concerto

12. Music for the Stage

The Opera Leonore and Its Overtures The Coriolanus Overture Incidental Music for Goethe’s Egmont

13. Vocal Music

Oratorio and Mass The Songs

14. Beethoven at the Keyboard

Improvising and Composing at the Piano Pianos The “Waldstein” and “Appassionata” Sonatas Piano Sonatas Opp. 78–81a Lyrical and Monumental Chamber Music

15. String Quartets

The “Razumovsky” Quartets The “Harp” Quartet and the “Quartetto Serioso”

PART FOUR: THE FINAL MATURITY 1813–1827

16. The “Fallow” Years

The Congress of Vienna Lighter Works Celebrating Wellington’s Victory Fidelio New Sonatas An die ferne Geliebte Emergence of the Late Style

17. Beethoven’s Inner and Outer Worlds

Isolation and Deafness The Guardianship Struggle “The human brain . . . is not a salable commodity” The Final Projects

18. Bringing the Past into the Present

The Third Maturity Beethoven’s Knowledge of Bach and Handel

19. Late Piano Music

The Hammerklavier Sonata, Opus Piano Sonatas Opp. 109–111 The “Diabelli” Variations The Late Bagatelles

20. The Celestial and the Human

The Missa solemnis The Ninth Symphony The Political Background of the Ninth Changing Views of the Ninth Composing the Ninth The Character of the Ninth

21. Timeless Music: The Last Quartets

Introduction Opus 127 Opus 132 Opus 130 and the Grand Fugue Opus 131 Opus 135 Final Thoughts

Notes Chronology Bibliography Classified Index of Beethoven’s Works Index of Beethoven’s Works by Opus Number General Index Copyright Also by Lewis Lockwood

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