Beethoven's symphonies
Subtitle: nine approaches to art and ideas
By: Martin Geck ; translated by Stewart Spencer
Contributors: Spencer, Stewart, translator
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780226453880
Subjects: Music appreciation; Analysis, appreciation; Symphony; Criticism and interpretation; Symphonies
Work titles: Sinfonien Beethovens
Notes: Translation of : Die Sinfonien Beethovens. Neun wege zum idennkunstwerk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Beethoven: symphonist par excellence. Napoleon Bonaparte ; Orchestral weight ; Delusions of virility ; Structure ; Jean Paul's "Cloven hoof"; title: Symphonies; title: Prolegomenon to the individual symphonies. On idle speculations ; On portentous prologues to ebullient finales ; On elemental beginnings ; On archetypal images ; On memorable fugato passages ; On striking dissonances ; On "false" entries ; On the escapades of the timpani ; On highly expressive foreshortenings ; On Beethoven's fondness for the eroica ; On crossing a threshold; title: The symphonies. Symphony no. 1 in C major, op. 21 ; Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36 ; Symphony no. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 (eroica) ; Symphony no. 4 in B-flat major, op. 60 ; Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67 ; Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 (pastoral) ; Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 ; Symphony no. 8 in F major, op. 93 ; Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125.