Selected New Beethoven and Beethoven-Related Books (1988-1993): Supplement

THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEW BOOKS RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY THE BEETHOVEN Center supplements list which appeared in Newsletter, vol. 9, no. 2-3 (Summer-Winter 1994), 135-141. I. Books of interest to general reader A. Books in English Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments. Vol. 1: Piano. Edited by Robert Palmieri. New York: Garland, 1994. 521 pp. $95. This well-indexed but scantily-illustrated reference book includes a four-page article by Seth Carlin on (with a somewhat outdated bibliography) and several entries that discuss Beethoven's fortepiano music (Music for piano), performance (Fingering, Technic and Performance practices - Stylistic considerations), and fortepiano builders (Broadwood, Erard, Graf, Stein family, Streicher family). Johnson, Stephen. Beethoven. Compact Companions. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 192 pp., 1 compact disc. $18. pocket-sized guide to Beethoven's life and works, with numerous black-and-white and color illustrations. biographical section includes chapters on Background and beginnings, A second The hero, Crises, The 'late' period, and Beethoven in history. With a listing of works by Opus, Work without opus (WbO), and Hess numbers, and a discography of recommended recordings. accompanying compact disc contains excerpts from Fifth Symphony; Fourth Fortepiano Concerto; String Quartet, Opus 135; Leonore Overture no. 3; Septet, Opus 20; Moonlight Sonata; Archduke Trio; Romance for violin and orchestra, Opus 50, no. 2; and Missa solemnis. Kinderman, William. Beethoven. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 374 p. $35. This new monograph focuses less on biography and more on an aesthetic examination of Beethoven's creative development from his earliest Bonn works through late string quartets. Following chronology of Beethoven's life, Kinderman explores works from new perspectives to show that the deepening of Beethoven's musical thought was a continuous process over decades of his life. Includes bibliographies and indexes. Komlos, Katalin. Fortepianos and Their Music: Germany, Austria, and England, 1760-1800. Oxford Monographs on Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 158 pp. $44. Study of relationship between early fortepianos and music composed for them, with sections focusing on instruments, music, and players. References to Beethoven's fortepiano music and playing appear throughout this volume, particularly in chapter on Aesthetics of performance. Includes bibliography and index. Levy, David Benjamin. Beethoven: Ninth Symphony. Monuments of Western Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1995. 226 pp. $35. first volume of a new series devoted to examination of single works, or groups of works, that have changed course of Western music by virtue of their greatness. Explores Schiller's text and Beethoven's symphony in context of times when they were written. Also follows compositional evolution of Beethoven's work and its relationship to Choral Fantasy and Fidelia, structure of symphony, and history of performance and reception. Includes a critical discography of nine recordings, bibliography, and index. Neymayr, Anton. Music & Medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Notes on Their Lives, Works, and Medical Histories. Translated by Bruce Cooper Clarke. Bloomington, IL : Medi-Ed Press, 1994. 447 pp. $33. Translation of Musik und Medizin: am Beispiel der Wiener Klassik, originally published in German in 1990. chapters on discuss his ancestry, childhood and adolescence, first signs of illness, crises in years 1802 and 1812, his nephew Karl, a low point in Beethoven's health, appearance of new symptoms, first signs of liver disease and their continuation, his last days, autopsy and disinterments, his deafness, his abdominal troubles, his doctors. …