Authors: Lewis Lockwood
ISBN-13: 9780393326383, ISBN-10: 0393326381
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: Reprint
Lewis Lockwood is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University. His publications include Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.
In, Beethoven, Lockwood, an eminent Beethoven scholar and Harvard professor, has put a lifetime of study and wisdom into this far-ranging, temperate biography, which, while summarizing all sorts of specialized and academically fashionable works about Beethoven, speaks in a clear and prudent, voice.
Beethoven's music, he reminds us, has survived through difficult times because it is the exemplar of noble aspiration -- and it is beautiful. It's ''a defense against the darkness.
Illustrations | ||
Preface | ||
Prologue. Youth, Maturity, Old Age: Three Letters | 3 | |
Pt. 1 | The Early Years 1770-1792 | |
1 | Beginnings | 25 |
2 | Music of the Bonn Years | 53 |
Pt. 2 | The First Maturity 1792-1802 | |
3 | The First Years in Vienna | 69 |
4 | Music of the First Vienna Years | 93 |
5 | Years of Crisis | 111 |
6 | Music for and with Piano | 124 |
7 | Music for Orchestra and the First Quartets | 147 |
8 | The First Maturity: An Overview | 169 |
Pt. 3 | The Second Maturity 1802-1812 | |
9 | Beethoven in the New Age | 181 |
10 | New Symphonic Ideals | 202 |
11 | The Mature Concertos | 238 |
12 | Music for the Stage | 252 |
13 | Vocal Music | 269 |
14 | Beethoven at the Keyboard | 280 |
15 | String Quartets | 312 |
Pt. 4 | The Final Maturity 1813-1827 | |
16 | The "Fallow" Years | 333 |
17 | Beethoven's Inner and Outer Worlds | 349 |
18 | Bringing the Past into the Present | 366 |
19 | Late Piano Music | 377 |
20 | The Celestial and the Human | 400 |
21 | Timeless Music: The Last Quartets | 441 |
Notes | 491 | |
Chronology | 551 | |
Bibliography | 559 | |
Classified Index of Beethoven's Works | 579 | |
Index of Beethoven's Works | 585 | |
General Index | 591 |