The Pianist as Orator: Beethoven and the Transformation of Keyboard Style [Hardcover]

Hardcover: 189 pages
Publisher: Cornell University Press (January 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0801424119
ISBN-13: 978-0801424113
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g

George Barth (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 1992

Concentrating on Beethoven's solo and chamber keyboard works, Barth builds his evaluation of Beethoven's keyboard style on a critique of musical timekeeping and eighteenth-century descriptions of music's character, focusing especially on the controversies between Beethoven's interpreters Anton Schindler and Carl Czerny.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Concentrating on Beethoven's solo and chamber keyboard works, Barth builds his evaluation of Beethoven's keyboard style on a critique of musical timekeeping and eighteenth-century descriptions of music's character, focusing especially on the controversies between Beethoven's interpreters Anton Schindler and Carl Czerny.