Wagner, Schumann, and the lessons of Beethoven's Ninth
By: Christopher Alan Reynolds
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780520285569
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Influence; Criticism and interpretation; Symphonies; Analysis, appreciation
Description: "Reynolds shows that the stylistic advances made by Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann in 1845-46 stemmed from a deepened understanding of Beethoven's techniques and strategies in the Ninth Symphony, particularly the use of counterpoint involving contrary motion. The trail of influences that Reynolds explores extends back to the music of Bach and ahead to Tristan and Isolde, as well as to Brahms's First Symphony."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Wagner's Faustian understanding of Beethoven's Ninth; title: The impact of the Ninth on the Flying Dutchman; title: Wagner, thematic dispersion, and contrary motion; title: Schumann, thematic dispersion, and contrary motion; title: Late Schumann, Wagner, and Bach; title: Brahms's triple response to the Ninth; title: Wagner and Schumann; title: Appendix 1. Citations of Wagner's possible allusions and influences in The flying Dutchman; title: Appendix 2. Contrary motion counterpoint in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth symphony; title: Appendix 3. Contrary motion counterpoint in The flying Dutchman; title: Appendix 4. Contrary motion counterpoint in the fourth movement of Schumann's Second symphony; title: Appendix 5. Contrary motion counterpoint in the first movement of Brahm's First symphony.