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The Cambridge Companion to
BEETHOVEN
EDITED BY
Glenn Stanley
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The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven/ edited by Glenn Stanley. p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0 521 58074 9 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 58934 7 (paperback)
1. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770 1827 Criticism and interpretation.
I. Stanley, Glenn. II. Series.
ML410.B4C24 1999
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Contributors
Leon Botstein is the President of Bard College and the Leon Levy Professor of the Arts and Humanities. He is the director of the American Symphony Orchestra and the American-Russian Youth Orchestra and the editor of The Musical Quarterly . He has edited the Compleat Brahms (1999).
Scott Burnham is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University. He is the author of Beethoven Hero (1995)and translator of Musical Form in the Age of Beethoven (1997), a selection of music theoretical writings by A. B. Marx. Currently he is pondering issues of subjectivity in the instrumental music of Mozart and Schubert.
Barry Cooper is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. His books include Beethoven and the Creative Process (1990)and Beethovens FolksongSettings (1994), and he is General Editor of The Beethoven Compendium (1991), a standard reference work that has been translated into five other languages. He has also written over thirty articles on Beethoven and other subjects, and completed a version of the first movement of Beethovens unfinished Tenth Symphony.
John Daverio is Professor of Music and Chairman of the Musicology Department at Boston University. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Music and the German Romantic Ideology (1993), Robert Schumann: Herald of aNew Poetic Age (1997), and numerous articles on the music of Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner.
David B. Dennis is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of Beethoven and German Politics, 18701989 (1996).
Alain Frogley is Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is the editor of Vaughan Williams Studies (1996). He has published articles on Beethoven in the Musical Times and Beethoven Forum, and has also written extensively on twentieth-century British music. He is a frequent contributor to BBC Music Magazine.
Amanda Glauert is a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and has contributed articles to 19th-Century Music, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera , and Wagner in Performance. She is the author of Hugo Wolf and the Wagnerian Inheritance (1999).
Roger Kamien holds the Zubin Mehta Chair in Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Music: An Appreciation and articles dealing with Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. He has recently completed a book on Beethovens piano sonatas.
Mark Kaplan, a violinist, brings to his chapter on the instrumental works with piano the sensitivity and authority of his international experience as a concert artist and teacher. As a violinist, Kaplan has appeared as soloist with every major symphony orchestra in Europe and North America, and is a founder of the celebrated GolubKaplanCarr Trio. He is Professor and Chair of the String Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, and continues to perform regularly with orchestras and major chamber music festivals.
William Kinderman is Professor of Music at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and has taught extensively at the Hochschule der Kunste, .. Berlin. He is the author of Beethovens Diabelli Variations, Beethoven, and editor of Beethovens Compositional Process and The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality. He is currently working on an edition of Beethovens sketchbook Artaria 195. As pianist, he often presents concerts and lecture recitals and has recorded Beethovens last sonatas and Diabelli Variations.
Birgit Lodes teaches at the University of Munich and is author of Das Gloria inBeethovens Missa solemnis (1997). She has recently published chapters on the Mass, the Requiem, and the Motet in the nineteenth century in the Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen, vol. 9: Messe und Motette (1998). She is currently working on a book about music and musical life in Augsburg 1490 1530.