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Author Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland)

Title Ignition: Beethoven : reception documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation / edited by Felix Meyer and Simon Obert
Edition English language edition
Published Woodbridge, UK : The Boydell Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Learning And Teaching Through Beethoven -- "As Eurydice was seen" Beethoven and the Teaching of Composition after 1900 / Matthias Schmidt -- Henry Brant -- Edgard Varese -- Bruno Maderna -- Earle Brown -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Gyorgy Kurtdg -- Idealizations -- Lofty Values, Empty Words Ideoloqical Levels in the Reception of Beethoven / Michelle Ziegler -- Anton Webern -- Charles Ives -- Ivan Wyschnegradsky -- Richard Strauss -- Rolf Liebermann -- George Rochberg -- Helmut Lachenmann -- Strategies Of Reference -- "You can only lose against Beethoven"? Modes of Reception in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Composition / Simone Hohmeier -- Rela Bartok -- Cristobal Halffter -- Dieter Schnebel -- Aribert Reimann -- Jiirg Wyttenbach -- Heinz Holliger -- Kaija Saariaho -- Distortion -- Dismantlement -- Beethoven at 200 + 50 The Changing Meaning of Commemorations / Esteban Buch -- Igor Stravinsky -- Mauricio Kagel -- Louis Andriessen -- Luciano Berio -- Cathy Berberian -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Summary Although the notion of a musical "mainstream" with Beethoven as its fons et origo barely holds today, countless composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have referred to Beethoven in their music or creatively sought to distance themselves from him. This volume illustrates his ongoing relevance using documents from the collections of the Paul Sacher Foundation. Designed to accompany the eponymous exhibition in the Bonn Beethovenhaus, it adopts the four thematic areas of that exhibition: "Learning and Teaching with Beethoven," "Idealizations," "Strategies of Reference," and "Distortion - Dismantlement." It explores the contexts, techniques, and ideological thrusts of Beethoven references in musicians of very wide-ranging backgrounds, from Anton Webern, Bela Bartok, and Richard Strauss to Mauricio Kagel, Cathy Berberian, and Kaija Saariaho. The selected documents are captured in photographic reproduction and accompanied by detailed commentary. Each section is preceded by an introductory essay discussing general aspects of recent Beethoven reception
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes "Catalogue of the exhibition 'Ignition: Beethoven - reception documents from the Paul Sacher Foundation' 13 November 2020 - 2 March 2021 in the Beethoven-Haus Bonn"--Title page verso
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed November 9, 2021)
Subject Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Influence -- Exhibitions
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 -- Exhibitions
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland) -- Exhibitions
Paul Sacher Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland)
Music -- Manuscripts -- Exhibitions.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Music -- Manuscripts
Genre/Form exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Form Electronic book
Author Meyer, Felix, 1957- editor.
Obert, Simon, editor.
Beethoven-Haus (Bonn, Germany), host institution.
ISBN 9781800103429
1800103425