Description |
xi, 327 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
Prologue : a sea change -- The end of a beginning : the "Diabelli" variations -- Beyond classicism -- Some romantic images -- Pastoral, rhetoric, structure : the Violin sonata in G, op. 96 -- Reason and imagination : the aesthetic dimension -- The Seventh symphony and the rhythms of antiquity -- The Masonic thread -- The Masonic imagination -- The shape of a journey : the "Diabelli" variations -- Intimations of the sacred -- The sense of an ending : the Ninth symphony -- The healing power of music. |
Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Last years.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. |
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Last years of a person's life. |
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Austria. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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ISBN |
0520237463 alkaline paper |
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