The changing image of Beethoven
Subtitle: a study in mythmaking
By: by Alessandra Comini.
Edition: Rev. ed. with a new foreword by the author.
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780865346611
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : mythmaking as cultural history; title: Beethoven alive : eyewitness accounts and contemporary likenesses; title: Beethoven dead : shaping the posthumous portrait; title: Beethoven interpreted : the musicians musician. Haydn to Chopin ; Berlioz to Brahms; title: The three-dimensional Beethoven; title: Vienna's Beethoven of 1902 : apotheosis and redemption.