{"product_id":"beethoven-9780195328363","title":"Beethoven","description":"Combining musical insight with the most recent research, William Kinderman's \u003cem\u003eBeethoven\u003c\/em\u003e is both a richly drawn portrait of the man and a guide to his music. Kinderman traces the composer's intellectual and musical development from the early works written in Bonn to the Ninth Symphony and the late quartets, looking at compositions from different and original perspectives that show Beethoven's art as a union of sensuous and rational, of expression and structure. In analyses of individual pieces, Kinderman shows that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this new updated edition, Kinderman gives more attention to the composer's early chamber music, his songs, his opera \u003cem\u003eFidelio\u003c\/em\u003e, and to a number of often-neglected works of the composer's later years and fascinating projects left incomplete. A revised view emerges from this of Beethoven's aesthetics and the musical meaning of his works. Rather than the conventional image of a heroic and tormented figure, Kinderman provides a more complex, more fully rounded account of the composer. Although Beethoven's deafness and his other personal crises are addressed, together with this ever-increasing commitment to his art, so too are the lighter aspects of his personality: his humor, his love of puns, his great delight in juxtaposing the exalted and the commonplace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Kinderman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195328363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Kinderman\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Musicology at the University of Illinois - Champaign-Urbana. His books include \u003cem\u003eBeethoven's \"Diabelli\" Variations\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1987), ed., \u003cem\u003eBeethoven's Compositional Process\u003c\/em\u003e (Nebraska, 1991), \u003cem\u003eBeethoven\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP and California, 1995), ed., \u003cem\u003eThe Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality\u003c\/em\u003e (Nebraska, 1996), \u003cem\u003eArtaria 195: Beethoven's Sketchbook for the 'Missa solemnis' and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109\u003c\/em\u003e (Illinois, 3 vols., 2003), ed. (with Katherine Syer), \u003cem\u003eA Companion to Wagner's \"Parsifal\"\u003c\/em\u003e (Camden House, 2005), ed., \u003cem\u003e The String Quartets of Beethoven\u003c\/em\u003e (Illinois, 2006), and \u003cem\u003eMozart's Piano Music\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2006). He is also an accomplished pianist whose recordings have been met with global acclaim; his double CD of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations has appeared with Arietta Records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44125797482611,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":111.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fa579a9e-600a-4224-83c0-be25c8415b96.jpg?v=1764766069","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/beethoven-9780195328363","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}