Beethoven's Folksong Settings: Chronology, Sources, Style

by Barry Cooper

Beethoven composed far more folksong settings than any other type of composition. Yet Beethoven's settings, commissioned by George Thomson of Edinburgh, have been neglected by performers and scholars alike, and nearly all accounts of them are both superficial and startlingly inaccurate. This book is based on a very elaborate study of a wide range of sources, and dispels the many myths that have been circulating about this music. Every one of the 179...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198162839
• ISBN13: 9780198162834
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"