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9780674063792

Beethoven Essays

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    9780674063792

  • ISBN10:

    0674063791

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1990-10-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

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This book contains virtually all of my important Beethoven essays, most of which were written during the past ten years. Primarily, these are depth studies of psychological, historical, and creative issues whose implications cannot be fully explored within the confines of a narrative biography.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
MUSIC AND MYTH
The Ninth Symphony: A Search for Order
3(32)
THE INTERIOR DIMENSION
Beethoven's Birth Year
35(8)
The Nobility Pretense
43(13)
The Dreams of Beethoven
56(21)
The Posthumous Life of Ludwig Maria van Beethoven
77(16)
On Beethoven's Deafness
93(8)
BIOGRAPHY AND CREATIVITY
Thoughts on Biography
101(15)
The Creative Periods of Beethoven
116(10)
Beethoven's Creative Process: A Two-Part Invention
126(13)
Beethoven and His Nephew: A Reappraisal
139(18)
THE IMMORTAL BELOVED
Recherche de Josephine Deym
157(9)
Antonie Brentano and Beethoven
166(27)
SOME VARIETIES OF UTOPIA
Beethoven's Magazin der Kunst
193(12)
Beethoven and Schiller
205(11)
The Quest for Faith
216(17)
THE TAGEBUCH
Beethoven's Tagebuch
233(66)
Abbreviations 299(4)
Notes 303(51)
Credits 354(2)
Index of the Tagebuch 356(3)
Index of Compositions 359(4)
General Index 363

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