Beethoven Piano Your resource for the piano music of Ludwig van Beethoven

author: Nicholas Marston asin: 0193153327 binding: Hardcover list price: $215.00 USD amazon price: $215.00 USD

BL A unique view of this important Beethoven piano sonata In his thorough analytical study of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in E, Op. 109, Nicholas Marston suggests a unique way of understanding this important work. Using letters, sketchbooks, and other contemporary material, he builds up a detiled picture of Beethoven's compositional progress on the sonata. He provides an exhaustive study of the sources and an analytical approach to the structure of the sonata itself. The source study is based on a complete transcription of all the surviving manuscript sources for the work; the book includes a large majority of the sketches, and parts of the autograph score. The introductory chapter reviews Heinrich Schenker's work on Op. 109. The middle chapters form the core of the analytical study in which the sketches for each part of the three movements are analysed in detail, and the relevance of the sketches to the final version is explored. The final chapter extends the notion of `sketch' beyond Op. 109 and summarizes the results of the study. No stone is left unturned: even Beethoven's previously misunderstood notation of final barlines in the autograph score is shown to be of structural significance.

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10CD box set.

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One of Pierre Fournier's Great Recordings - Arguably the Best Recording of the Beethoven Complete Cello Works - that Will Form Part of Our Fournier 100 Celebrations (The Anniversary of his Birth Falls on 24 June this Year). The Recordings were Made When Fournier was at his Technical Peak, and Partnered by the Keenly-insightful Friedrich Gulda. The CD Booklet Includes a Fascinating Memoir by the Son of Pierre Fournier - Jean Fonda - on "Fournier and Fritz [gulda]", plus a Couple of Delightful Fifties Photos !