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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"1770-1827"”.
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A justification for the study of folk song settings, or the arrangement as a valid composition
… Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). These composers found vivid inspiration and a certain amount of success by setting folk songs as art music, but a survey of available scholarship centering on their …
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Aspects of Form, Tonality, and Texture in the ''Farewell'' Piano Sonatas of Beethoven and Dussek
… Dussek (1760-1812) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), each wrote one piano sonata with a "Farewell" title. The Bohemian musician Dussek was one of the renowned composers of his era. He was also famous as a pianist, with a brilliant and virtuosic style of playing. Beethoven was a German …
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Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary
… Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Though Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote non-liturgical music regarded as "spiritual," (e.g., the late piano sonatas, the late string quartets), Liszt sought to articulate a category of music specifically religious, apart from vocal, liturgical associations. Liszt invented …
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Genobiography: The Beethoven Genome Project as a case study integrating genomics into historical biography
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is among the most influential and popular composers in Western Art Music. Health problems significantly impacted his career as a composer and pianist, including progressive hearing loss, recurring bowel problems and liver disease. In 1802, Beethoven requested that …
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Beethoven: The man, the music, the myth
1 PDF file (iv, 73 pages)
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"Modernity's hearing loss" : Beethoven, romantic critique, and the music of the literary
This dissertation explores the relationship between the critique of Jena romanticism and Beethoven's "neue Manier" in the context of the material conditions that shaped European modernity around 1800. By taking as a case study the piano sonatas Op. 31, each chapter examines from a different …
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A Critical analysis of “Adelaide” by Ludwig Van Beethoven
It is our purpose to examine as thoroughly as possible the song, "Adelaide", by Ludwig van Beethoven. The study will include a brief summary of the life of Beethoven, pertinent statements about his music and a detailed analysis of the song.
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Voice and Genre in Beethoven's Deux Grandes Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte avec un Violoncelle obligé, Op. 5
This paper examines the generic aspect of Beethoven's Opus 5 Cello Sonatas (1796) from structuralist and post-structuralist perspectives, and explores the works from these viewpoints in order to gain insights into how the sonatas function as autonomous musical texts rather than historiographic …
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Cathy Hays Zepeda's Graduate Recital
Composers in the first graduate recital: Robert Schumann; Gerald Finzi; Manuel de Falla
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Wan Kyu Chung's Graduate Recital
Composers in the first graduate recital: Ludwig van Beethoven; Claude Debussy; Sergei Prokofieff
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Redford Charles Hazlewood Jr.'s Ph.D. Recital
Composers in the first Ph.D. recital: Gabriel Pierne; Christoph Schaffrath; John Russo; Carl Maria Von Weber; Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Jane Womack's Graduate Recital
Composers in the first graduate recital: Johann Sebastian Bach; Ludwig van Beethoven; Franz Liszt; Johannes Brahms; Frederic Chopin
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The Theme and Variations as Used by Four Important Piano Composers in Four Periods of Music History
The intent of this study was to give a brief background and history of the theme and variations in early periods of music history, as well as to analyze more specifically and compare in some depth the use of the form by four composers of later periods, in a keyboard work of each. Each of the …