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Beethoven's "Orpheus" Concerto.
The Fourth Piano Concerto in Its Cultural Context.
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- Book details for Beethoven's "Orpheus" Concerto.
- North American Beethoven Studies Series
- Owen Jander (author)
- Hardback, 260 x 180 x 20mm , 215 pp, music examples
- 15 Nov 2009
- Pendragon Press
- 1576471322
- 9781576471326
'Beethoven composed his Fourth Piano Concerto in Vienna in the years 1803-06. In that period there was an unusually keen interest in the Orpheus legend; and so it is not surprising to learn that all three movements...were undeclaredly - or better described, secretly-based on that famous story'. So begins Owen Jander's "Beethoven's 'Orpheus' Concerto: The Fourth Piano Concerto in its Cultural Context". In this fascinating and controversial book, the author maintains - echoing the interpretation first suggested by Adolph Berhard Marx in 1859 - that the three movements are based on the Classical versions of the Orpheus legend by Virgil and Ovid. Jander tells us the full story - from the opening phrase of the first movement to the last measure of the finale - of how the Orpheus legend informs every note of Beethoven's music.
