In 1913, Austrian pianist, music theorist, and composer Heinrich Schenker began a series of monographs on Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas (Opp. 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111). These books are the product. Each book includes a critical edition of the sonata discussed, with restoration of Beethoven’...

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1. Verfasser:	Schenker, Heinrich 1868-1935 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Rothgeb, John 1940- (ÜbersetzerIn, HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Oxford University Press [2015]
Schlagworte:	Beethoven, Ludwig van > 1770-1827 Geschichte 1816-1822 Klaviersonate
Zusammenfassung:	In 1913, Austrian pianist, music theorist, and composer Heinrich Schenker began a series of monographs on Beethoven’s last five piano sonatas (Opp. 101, 106, 109, 110, and 111). These books are the product. Each book includes a critical edition of the sonata discussed, with restoration of Beethoven’s authentic text. (Because Schenker required for this purpose access to the composer’s autograph score, Op. 106 could not be completed, as the location of its autograph was then and remains today unknown.) Besides establishing an authentic text, Schenker intended also to explain the musical content. A tool central to this task was his new way of understanding harmony — in particular his recognition of the way individual harmonies are composed out (unfolded) through time. This insight vastly enriched the conventional parsing of the music into themes, phrases, and motifs, as well as the study of metric organization in the large (hypermeter, or the grouping of bars such that constituents of the group themselves exhibit metric "strength" or "weakness" as do the beats of individual bars). The approach employed begins with formal description using established terminology (for example, that of sonata form) where appropriate, but Schenker’s findings are often different from those arrived at by earlier writers. For example, he recognizes the components of sonata form even in the first movement of Op. 109, where other writers (including those represented in his Literature sections, which review texts by several nineteenth-century authors) are led astray by the reduced tempo of the second theme and speak instead of a "recitative".
Beschreibung:	Translation of: Schenker, Heinrich. Die letzen fünf Sonaten von Beethoven: Kritische Ausgabe mit Einführung und Erläuterung. Wien: Universal Edition, 1913-1921. 4 volumes