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Lewis Lockwood - Beethoven´s Eroica Sketchbook: A Critical Edition - 9780252037436 - V9780252037436
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Beethoven´s Eroica Sketchbook: A Critical Edition

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Description for Beethoven´s Eroica Sketchbook: A Critical Edition Multiple-component retail product. Makes available both a complete facsimile and transcription of Beethoven's "Eroica" sketchbook for the first time, along with a detailed commentary on the origins, contents, and significance of this vitally important source. Editor(s): Lockwood, Lewis; Gosman, Alan. Series: Beethoven Sketchbook Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, 182 colour photographs, 6 b&w photographs, 13 line drawings, 219 music. BIC Classification: AVGC4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 326 x 255 x 41. Weight in Grams: 3120.
Beethoven's many surviving sketchbooks bear witness to the vast creative labor that lay behind the musical masterpieces he left to posterity. Among them, one of the most famous is the ""Eroica"" Sketchbook, containing all the known sketches for the ""Eroica"" Symphony, the ""Waldstein"" Sonata, and other works of 1803–04. These include his first sketches for the opera Leonore (later entitled Fidelio), as well as the unfinished opera Vestas Feuer, the oratorio Christus am Oelberge, the Triple Concerto, songs, keyboard compositions, and early sketches that later bore fruit in the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. It also ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
188
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Beethoven Sketchbook Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252037436
SKU
V9780252037436
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About Lewis Lockwood
Lewis Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life as well as other books on Beethoven. Alan Gosman is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan.

Reviews for Beethoven´s Eroica Sketchbook: A Critical Edition
"A very impressive scholarly edition of the most famous and important of Beethoven's sketchbooks, long treasured for their illumination of Beethoven's works. The difficult notations are deciphered scrupulously and ingeniously, and Lockwood and Gosman have not hesitated to add their clarifications of obscure notations right on the transcription pages."
Joseph Kerman, author of Opera and the Morbidity of Music "Without question, ... Read more

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