Beethoven Forum articles from January 1 2000

Beethoven Forum archives from January 1 2000

Preface.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
January 1, 2000... A FORUM is a place in which to exchange ideas, and in this sense it is fair to say that since its inception in 1992 Beethoven Forum has lived up to the expectations of its genre. With this volume, we introduce what we hope will be a standing...

Abbreviations.
January 1, 2000... Literature Anderson Emily Anderson, ed., The Letters of Beethoven, 3 vols.(London: Macmillan, 1961; rpt. New York: Norton, 1985). Brandenburg ...

Hoechle's 1827 Sketch of Beethoven Studio: A Secret Tribute to Schubert?
January 1, 2000... The first time I saw Johann Nepomuk Hoechle's ink-wash sketch of Beethoven's music studio in the Schwarzspanierhaus, I exclaimed: What is a bust of Schubert doing here? (see plate 1). My instinctive reaction told me that the huge effigy...

"Let Your Deafness No Longer Be a Secret--Even in Art": Self-Portraiture and the Third Movement of the C-Minor Symphony.
January 1, 2000... In 1806 Beethoven addressed to himself the following remarkable admonition: "Just as you are plunging yourself into the whirlwind of society, and even as it is now possible for you, despite all social obstacles, to compose operas--let your...

The Evolution of Beethoven's Late Style: Another "New Path" after 1824?
January 1, 2000... The rethinking of Beethoven's late style poses a challenge that is best addressed through a combination of historical and analytical approaches. More than a generation ago, Martin Cooper described this stylistic evolution as a "gradual...

Beethoven, Freemasonry, and the Tagebuch of 1812-1818.
January 1, 2000... I This essay will examine some of the Masonic implications of Beethoven's Tagebuch of 1812-18. First, however, it may be useful to take stock of other threads that, directly or indirectly, connect Beethoven to Freemasonry. ...

From Berlioz's Fugitives to Godard's Terrorists: Artistic Responses to Beethoven's Late Quartets.
January 1, 2000... Perhaps because I live in Davis, California, I followed the saga of the Unabomber with particular interest. Davis is a mere twelve miles from Sacramento, the home of one of his last victims and, as a consequence, the site of the trial. We...

A Problem Resolved? The Form of the Scherzo of Beethoven's String Quartet in F, Op.59, No.1.(response to Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven Forum, vol. 2, p. 85, 1993)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Lewis Lockwood's essay "A Problem of Form: The `Scherzo' of Beethoven's String Quartet in F Major, Op.59, No.1"(1) is an invaluable starting point for an appreciation of the different interpretations of the form of this extraordinary...

On the Missa solemnis.(response to Birgit Lodes, Beethoven Forum, vol. 6, p. 143, 1998, includes reply)
January 1, 2000... In her essay "`When I try, now and then, to give musical form to my turbulent feelings': The Human and the Divine in the Gloria of Beethoven's Missa solemnis,"(1) Birgit Lodes argues at length for the Gloria as an open-ended movement, citing...

Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Tia DeNora. Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792-1803. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. 232 pp. Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom the...

Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989.(Review)
January 1, 2000... David B. Dennis. Beethoven in German Politics, 1870-1989. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xii, 251 pp. Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom the Lord singled out, face to face." Just as Moses led his...

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio. Edited by Paul Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xi, 191pp. In discussing the Leonore Overture No.3, Wagner objected to the recapitulation because such a repetition does not...

Beethoven Hero.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Scott Burnham, Beethoven Hero. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. xix, 209 pp. From the moment of his death, it seems, Ludwig van Beethoven became and remained everybody's hero. He was accorded a hero's funeral without...