The Beethoven violin sonatas
Subtitle: history, criticism, performance
By: edited by Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll
Contributors: Lockwood, Lewis; Kroll, Mark
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827; Sonatas (Violin and piano) -- Analysis, appreciation
Description: "Beethoven's ten violin sonates have long been cornerstones of the chamber music repertoire. The "Spring" and "Kreutzer" sonatas are the best known of these works, which stand at the pinnacle of music for violin and piano." "Lewis Lockwood and Mark Kroll's volume The Beethoven Violin Sonatas is the first scholarly book in English devoted exclusively to the Beethoven sonatas and deals with them in unprecedented depth. Serving readers, listeners, and performers as a companion to the sonatas, it presents seven critical and historical essays by some of the most important American and European Beethoven specialists of our time. The authors examine the sonatas within the history of the genre, the social and cultural context in which they were written, their significance within Beethoven's life and works, and the issues they raise regarding performance practices of the period."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Collection of essays "derived from a festival-conference on the   Beethoven violin sonatas held at Boston University in Oct. 2000, directed by Mark Kroll and Lewis Lockwood."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index
Table of contents: title: Beethoven's opus 12 violin sonatas : on the path to his personal style / S. Brandenburg; title: On the beautiful in music : Beethoven's Spring sonata for violin and piano, opus 24 / L. Lockwood; title: Sonate, que me veux-tu? opus 30, 31 and the anxieties of genre / R. Kramer; title: Beethoven's opus 47 : balance and virtuosity / S. Ahn; title: The introduction to Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata : a historical perspective /  W. Drabkin; title: The violin sonata in G Major, opus 96 : pastoral, rhetoric, structure / M. Solomon; title: As if stroked with a bow : Beethoven's keyboard legato and the sonatas for violin and piano /  M. Kroll