Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes

by Hugh Macdonald

In Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes, world-renowned musicologist Hugh Macdonald draws together many of his richest essays on music from Beethoven's time into the early twentieth century. The essays are here revised and updated, and some are printed in English for the first time. Beethoven's Century addresses perennial questions of what music meant to the composer and his audiences, how it was intended to be played, and how today's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462758
• ISBN13: 9781580462754
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"