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Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces de Laura Tunbridge

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Autor Laura Tunbridge
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 iun 2021

Viena, începutul secolului al XIX-lea: un bărbat se luptă cu liniștea care se așterne peste auzul său, în timp ce în minte îi răsună acorduri care vor schimba istoria. Laura Tunbridge a scris Beethoven nu doar pentru a marca un centenar, ci din nevoia de a recupera omul din spatele mitului „geniului încruntat”. Suntem de părere că această biografie reușește ceva rar: să umanizeze o figură monumentală prin detalii concrete ale existenței sale cotidiene. Subliniem modul în care Laura Tunbridge alege să nu urmeze o cronologie liniară epuizantă, ci să deschidă nouă ferestre tematice prin intermediul a nouă lucrări esențiale. Abordarea sa jurnalistică și academică deopotrivă evocă rigoarea din Beethoven's Lives, dar perspectiva este mult mai intimă, concentrându-se pe „carne și sânge” mai degrabă decât pe analiza tehnică abstractă. Notăm cu interes cum autoarea își folosește expertiza acumulată în lucrări precum Rethinking Schumann sau The Song Cycle pentru a plasa muzica lui Beethoven într-un context cultural mai larg, explorând teme precum eroismul, familia și prietenia. Spre deosebire de Life of Beethoven de Ludwig Nohl, care se concentrează pe dificultățile financiare și statutul de burlac, Tunbridge oferă un portret mult mai nuanțat al procesului creativ, demonstrând cum fiecare piesă muzicală a fost un răspuns la realitățile politice și personale ale vremii. Este o lectură care transformă audiția într-o experiență vizuală și istorică, oferind claritate acolo unde biografiile anterioare s-au mulțumit cu legendele.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241987445
ISBN-10: 024198744X
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de muzică clasică care dorește să înțeleagă omul real din spatele busturilor de marmură. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă proaspătă asupra modului în care s-au născut marile simfonii, fiind o lectură accesibilă, dar profund documentată, care demontează clișeele despre Beethoven și oferă un context istoric fascinant pentru fiecare notă compusă.

Despre autor

Laura Tunbridge este profesoară de muzicologie la Universitatea Oxford și o autoritate recunoscută în studiul muzicii secolului al XIX-lea. Experiența sa academică este vastă, fiind autoarea lucrării Schumann's Late Style și editor al volumului Rethinking Schumann. Contribuțiile sale în publicații de prestigiu precum The Musical Quarterly și Cambridge Opera Journal reflectă o preocupare constantă pentru relația dintre muzică, literatură și context cultural. În Beethoven, ea își distilează erudiția într-un stil narativ captivant, adaptând rigoarea cercetării pentru un public larg, fără a sacrifica profunzimea analizei istorice.

Recenzii

We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the genius of his music and the richness of his experiences - to shine a revealing light on our greatest composer
This book is really wonderful! Nine works of Beethoven from different times in his life tell the story of that life - nine windows through which the man and his music are revealed with captivating clarity. We often speak about the 'universal spirit' of Beethoven but this book also brings to life how he fits into, and indeed creates, the new universe of cultural life which was born as the nineteenth century began. However many books on Beethoven you own, find the space for one more. This one
In a year when everyone's looking for a new take on Beethoven, Laura Tunbridge has found nine. It makes great sense to look at the composer not thematically but in selected fragments, taking us nine small steps closer to his elusive totality. Fresh and engaging
I truly enjoyed reading it . . . Excellent . . .Laura Tunbridge upends the two-centuries-old image of Beethoven as a Promethean Titan heroically composing works of genius on his isolated rock of suffering.She convincingly argues that Beethoven's current iconic status must be understood within the context of his financial dealings and lifetime of often affable, sometimes acerbic, vibrant interchanges with family members, other composers, patrons, friends, musicians, singers, publishers, producers, and makers of musical instruments. Her detailed musical analyses of familiar as well as now rarely-performed works of Beethoven converse with one another as well as with other music of the era and with quotidian life in Vienna.This well researched and accessible book is a must read for all who seek to know more about the flesh and blood tangible Beethoven and the checkered history of his receptionthan about the Beethoven of unfathomable mythic immensity
Mark that young man, he will make a name for himself in the world
Tunbridge has come up with the seemingly impossible: a new way of approaching Beethoven's life and music . . . and in every chapter a superb - and accessible to non-musicians - analysis of the music . . . profoundly original and hugely readable
Remarkable . . . she captures the essence of his genius and character. I'll always want to keep it in easy reach
I found Tunbridge's book full of thought-provoking detail. Beethoven may be irredeemably pale and male, but, in this far-ranging discussion, his life and revolutionary music never feel stale

Elegant, enquiring and best read with the music turned up
Illuminating . . . deftly gathers in the connections . . . In 288 pages, Tunbridge gives us detail enough to create a rounded portrait . . . She makes us marvel at Beethoven all the more
You don't have to be a music scholar to enjoy this brilliant, and pleasingly concise book. But, if you don't love Beethoven, both the man and his music, when you start, you should by the time you finish
Cuts straight to the action . . . Tunbridge balances the traditional narrative of universal, timeless genius, of innovation before its time, with a pragmatic, jobbing musician working hard to make a living
Compact but also rewarding...a lot of information is packed into her musical portraits
Laura Tunbridge finds something fresh to say about Beethoven by looking at his life through nine pieces... An entertaining way to celebrate the great man's 250th birthday
A twinkling elucidation of concert life in Vienna... fluent, concise and engaging
Laura Tunbridge, in her new biographical study, has found an elegant way to give Beethovenian heroism and struggle its due, while slyly plucking at the reverse of Solomon's martial banner... Each chapter delivers its little shock of correction
A concise, subtly revealing survey... emphasizing the many-sidedness of the composer's spirit
Laura Tunbridge offers a timely portrait of the composer in an elegant biography . . . refreshingly, [she] focuses on the man rather than the myth. Knowledgeable and humane, this is a deeply sympathetic portrait of a turbulent musical genius

Descriere scurtă

**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography**

NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS.

'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the genius of his music and the richness of his experiences - to shine a revealing light on our greatest composer' John Humphrys
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Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths.

In Beethoven, Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge cuts through the noise. With each chapter focusing on a period of his life, piece of music and revealing theme - from family to friends, from heroism to liberty - she provides a rich insight into the man and the music.

Revealing a wealth of never-before-seen material, this tour de force is a compelling, accessible portrayal of one of the world's most creative minds and it will transform how you listen for ever.
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'Tunbridge has come up with the seemingly impossible: a new way of approaching Beethoven's life and music . . . profoundly original and hugely readable' John Suchet, authorBeethoven: The Man Revealed

'This well researched and accessible book is a must read for all who seek to know more about the flesh and blood tangible Beethoven.' John Clubbe, author ofBeethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary

'This book is really wonderful! ... However many books on Beethoven you own, find the space for one more. This one' Stephen Hough, pianist, composer, writer

'In a year when everyone's looking for a new take on Beethoven, Laura Tunbridge has found nine. Fresh and engaging' Norman Lebrecht, author ofGenius and Anxiety

'Remarkable . . . she captures the essence of his genius and character. I'll always want to keep it in easy reach' Julia Boyd, author ofTravellers in the third Reich

Notă biografică

Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music and Henfrey Fellow of St Catherine's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of three monographs (Schumann's Late Style, The Song Cycle and Singing in the Age of Anxiety), the recipient of a three-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust for a project on string quartets, and the winner of the 2021 Dent Medal, awarded by the Royal Musical Association for outstanding contributions to musicology. She has spoken about Beethoven on BBC Radio 4 and at major events, including at the Southbank Centre. This is her first trade book.