Performing Beethoven (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521023740
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Performance practice (Music); History & Criticism - By Composer; Music; Music/Songbooks; Individual Composer & Musician; Beethoven, Ludwig van, --1770-1827--Criticism; Beethoven, Ludwig van,--1770-1827--Criticism and interpretation; Music / General; General; History & Criticism - General; 18th century; 19th century; History
First sentence: It was not long ago that London's musical public was swept into a controversy triggered off by Adolf Aber's strong words that graced the first page of The Musical Times of June 1948: the recent [Adolf] Busch concerts at Kingsway Hall stood out as high-lights of the concert season . . . the chief factor, it cannot be doubted, was the conviction that the music of Bach and Handel was being performed in the only right and proper way . . . many in the audience heard for the first time in their lives how these works ought to sound.