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Fred Stoltzfus - Grasnick 5: Beethoven´s Pocket Sketchbook for the Agnus Dei of the Missa solemnis, Opus 123 - 9780252039706 - V9780252039706
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Grasnick 5: Beethoven´s Pocket Sketchbook for the Agnus Dei of the Missa solemnis, Opus 123

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Description for Grasnick 5: Beethoven´s Pocket Sketchbook for the Agnus Dei of the Missa solemnis, Opus 123 Hardback. Series: Beethoven Sketchbook Series. Num Pages: 144 pages, 8 black and white photographs, 8 musical examples, 1 table, 78 color plates. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGC4; AVH; AVQ; AVRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 396 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1474.
Long neglected in scholarship, the so-called Grasnick 5 documents reveal Beethoven working out concepts and ideas, offering fascinating insights into his creative method. This critical edition, the third in the Beethoven Sketchbook Series, offers a facsimile and transcription of the contents of the stitched pocket sketchbook started by the fifty-year-old master during the summer of 1820. At the time, Beethoven labored over the Missa solemnis , Opus 123. The sketchbook's pages yield the entire record of his early ideas on the Agnus Dei of that work as well as a sketch for part of the Benedictus. Patrizia Metzler and Fred ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
Beethoven Sketchbook Series
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039706
SKU
V9780252039706
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Ref
99-1

About Fred Stoltzfus
Patrizia Metzler earned a doctorate in choral conducting at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and is artistic director of the Bach Collegium Paris. Fred Stoltzfus is a professor emeritus of music at UIUC. He edited Franz Joseph's Stabat Mater and is a recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society.

Reviews for Grasnick 5: Beethoven´s Pocket Sketchbook for the Agnus Dei of the Missa solemnis, Opus 123
"Building upon two generations of scholarship on what Beethoven referred to as 'my greatest work,' Metzler and Stoltzfus have made a meticulous study of the sketches for the Agnus Dei from the Missa solemnis from late 1820 and early 1821. Their Grasnick 5 beautifully complements the recent editions of the composer’s two main desk sketchbooks from these years."
William B. Drabkin, ... Read more

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