The Symphony Since Beethoven
This 1904 book by composer, conductor and pianist Felix Weingartner examines the development of the symphony as a musical form since one of its greatest practitioners, Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven's symphonic works gave the symphony an unprecedented importance as an art form and inspired his contemporaries and later composers to take it more seriously. Weingartner helped create a widespread appreciation for Beethoven's symphonies through his writings on, and performances of, these works. He conducted all of Beethoven's symphonies, and was the first conductor to make commercial recordings of all nine of them.
Genre(s): Music
Language: English
Keyword(s): Beethoven (14), musicology (4), symphony (4), music history (3)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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| Play 00 | Preface and Introduction | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 01 | Haydn-Shubert | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 02 | Mendelssohn | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 03 | Schumann | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 04 | Brahms | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 05 | Bruckner and Foreign Composers | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 06 | Berlioz | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 07 | Liszt | realisticspeakers |
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| Play 08 | Modern Composers and Conclusion | realisticspeakers |
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