William Kinderman Bücher

Ludwig van Beethoven war zweifellos einer der größten Komponisten aller Zeiten, sein einzigartiges musikalisches Erbe dominiert nach wie vor die Konzertsäle der Welt. Und er war ein enorm politischer Künstler. Als Zeitzeuge turbulenter Epochen – Französische Revolution, Napoleonische Kriege, Wiener Kongress, die Ära Metternich – bezog er gegenüber den Mächtigen selbst dann klare Position, wenn er finanziell auf sie angewiesen war. William Kinderman, Pianist, Musikwissenschaftler und ausgewiesener Beethoven-Kenner, macht sich in seiner brillanten Analyse auf die Spuren von politischer Realität und Utopie im OEuvre Beethovens und setzt beides in Beziehung zu den sozialpolitischen Herausforderungen der Gegenwart. Auf diese Weise wirft Kinderman ein völlig neues Licht auf so grandiose Werke wie Fidelio, Egmont, Eroica und die 9. Sinfonie.

Fresh perspectives on the symphonies and piano concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven are presented in the inaugural volume of North American Beethoven Studies, published by the University of Nebraska Press and the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. Edited by music scholar and pianist William Kinderman, this volume compiles recent studies by leading scholars on Beethoven’s major orchestral works, including the first two piano concertos, the Egmont overture, the Missa Solemnis, and key symphonies such as the Third, Fifth, and Ninth. The contributors focus on Beethoven’s creative process, analyzing his surviving musical sketchbooks and loose sketch-leaves, often for the first time. Topics include Beethoven’s reinterpretation of Haydn and Mozart’s composition models, his working methods, the structural expansion of his symphonic forms, the design of variation movements, and his musical symbolism. Four introductory essays explore the relationship between Beethoven’s sketches and the analysis of his finished works, presenting a fascinating and controversial undertaking. This volume illuminates critical issues and challenges traditional interpretations of Beethoven’s celebrated works while avoiding the narrow specialization of recent scholarship. Future volumes will address performance practices, composition, and recording history.

"William Kinderman's detailed study of Parsifal, described by the composer as his "last card," explores the evolution of the text and music of this inexhaustible yet highly controversial music drama across Wagner's entire career, and offers a reassessment of the ideological and political history of Parsifal, shedding new light on the connection of Wagner's legacy to the rise of National Socialism in Germany. The compositional genesis is traced through many unfamiliar manuscript sources, revealing unsuspected models and veiled connections to Wagner's earlier works. Fresh analytic perspectives are revealed, casting the dramatic meaning of Parsifal in a new light. Much debated aspects of the work, such as Kundry's death at the conclusion, are discussed in the context of its stage history."--book jacket.