Author:
Huizing, Jan Marisse, author.
ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
Descriptionx, 322 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Note:"Originally published in German. Title of the original German edition: Ludwig van Beethoven : die Klaviersonaten, Interpretation und Aufführungspraxis by Jan Marisse Huizing, ED 21349, 2012."--Title page verso.
Note:The sonatas: overview: form and content -- Beethoven's pianism -- The piano in Beethoven's time -- Performance practice and Beethoven's notation -- The editions -- Style and interpretation -- The recordings -- Appendix. Keyboard actions.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-310) and indexes.
Note:"Beethoven's piano sonatas are among the iconic cornerstones of the classical music repertoire. Jan Marisse Huizing offers an in-depth study of the sonatas using available autographs, first editions, recordings, and nearly three hundred musical examples. Digging into the historical background and historical performance practice, the book provides illuminating detail on Beethoven's pianism as well as his characteristics of notation, form and content, "types of touch," articulation, beaming, pedal indications, character, rubato, meter, metric constructions, tempo, and metronome marks. Packed with anecdotes, quotations, and considerable new information, the book will inspire all involved with these masterworks, playing a fortepiano or modern Grand, giving the sense of the composer sitting beside them as he translates his inspiration and ideas into his notation."--Back cover.
