Beethoven's Irish Songs Revisited: Texts Chosen by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin Edited by Margaret O'Sullivan Farrell

by Margaret O'Sullivan Farrell and Tomas O Suilleabhain

Beethoven's seventy-two settings of traditional Irish airs constitute his most prolific output in any genre. The arrangements were commissioned in the early nineteenth century by the Scottish editor and publisher, George Thomson, who sent airs, but no texts, to Beethoven. Poetry, mostly by less well-known poets, was attached to the finished settings before publication by Thomson, and perhaps therein lies the reason why the songs never achieved the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788746430
• ISBN13: 9781788746434
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 11.7"