Experiencing Beethoven
Subtitle: a listener's companion
By: Geoffrey Block
Series: Listener's companion; Listener's companion
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781442245457
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Music appreciation; Criticism and interpretation
Description: xx, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: "Timeline": pages ix-xiii; "Glossary": pages 239-249.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256), discography (pages 257-259), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. "Why Beethoven?"; title: "The spirit of Mozart" (1770-1792); title: "From the hands of Haydn" (1792-1801); title: The "heroic" style (1802-1806); title: Fidelio : Beethoven's one and only opera (1805-1806 and 1814); title: Symphonic alternatives to the heroic style (1808-1814); title: Beethoven and song; title: The late piano music (1816-1824); title: Daiku : the big Ninth (1824); title: The String quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131 (1826).