Life and work; personal style and the individuality of single works; "Ingenium" and "Witz"; the symphonic style; issues in sonata form; theme and character; the "underlying idea"; form as idea; the "new path"; "Fidelio"; church music and the religion of art; subthematicism; late works.
Carl Dahlhaus was a prolific author and one of the leading German musicologists in the field of 19th- and 20th-century music. He was also editor-in-chief of Richard Wagner's Gesamtausgabe.
`this book certainly confirms its author's reputation for grappling
with serious issues. None of it makes for particularly easy
reading, but time spent following the arguments certainly brings
its own dividends.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`newly (and beautifully) translated book'
Times Literary Supplement
`The translation is eminently readable, and the clarity of the
technical musical analyses will allow even a general reader
interested in Beethoven to gain a deeper appreciation of the music.
Highly recommended for all collections.'
W.P. Dougherty, Plymouth State College, Choice Apr '92
'Translating such material is extremely difficult; Mary Whittall
must be commended for understanding Dahlhaus's meanings so
perceptively and retaining his style so closely.'
Barry Cooper, Music and Letters, Vol. 73, No. 3, Aug '92
` ... the Dahlhaus, sadly one of his last works, carries the weight
of huge erudition and dynamic argument within the confines of a
single monograph.'
Nicholas Williams, Musical Times
`This volume gives the musically well-educated individual an
intriguing encounter with Beethoven's music as well as descriptions
of numerous aesthetic facets from which it sprang ... there is much
to stimulate thought and analysis ... the reader is likely to gain
much insight to Beethoven's musical thought processes and total
output ... it serves well as a reference volume ... there is much
here of value ... for the rewards offered through careful
reading
of the work are indeed significant.'
Samuel D. Miller, University of Houston, Bulletin of the Council
for Research in Music Education
`with Dahlhaus's death in 1989 at the relatively early age of
sixty, the loss to musicology and the humanities has been enormous
... His work will reverberate for a long time to come. No one can
fail to admire Dahlhaus's richly provocative, probing approach; no
category or question is immune from consideration.'
Lewis Lockwood, 19th Century Music
'Dahlhaus's Beethoven book (presented here in a fine translation)
offers readers perhaps the steadiest and most reliable vantage on
his method ... Dahlhaus's book stands as an increasingly lonely
outpost, perhaps the last to come under the spell of aesthetic
immanence with open eyes.'
Scott Burnham, Princeton University, Notes, March 1993
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