Essays About Beethoven

Nicht diese Töne: What If a Black Lives Matter Protest Had Silenced Vancouver’s AMS Business Meeting?

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Dresden, 1845-46

by Christopher Reynolds Professor Reynolds here reflects on the genesis of Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven’s Ninth (University of California Press, 2015). [Professor Strunk was fond of reminding us how “You have to be in the haystack before you can find the needle.” —DKH]… Read More

New Beethoven Research

by David B. Levy With the Spring 2007 issue of Beethoven Forum (vol. 14, no. 2), the journal which had started with such promise in 1992, came to an end. Did this mean that research on the music and life of Ludwig van Beethoven was no longer fashionable? Was there… Read More

Beethoven IX : the App

by Andrew Dell’Antonio There’s something about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that inspires complex engagement. Long before the current Beethoven’s 9th Symphony app (TouchPress/Deutsche Grammophon, iOS only, free to try—then $5.99 for iPhone, $13.99 for iPad), even (can we remember that far?) before the explosion of the Internet, musicologist… Read More