Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth
Christopher Alan Reynolds
ISBN: | 9780520960978 |
Publisher: | University of California Press |
Published: | 24 April, 2015 |
Format: | eBook |
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Wagner, Schumann, and the Lessons of Beethoven's Ninth
Christopher Alan Reynolds
In this original study, Christopher Alan Reynolds examines the influence of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on two major nineteenth-century composers, Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. During 1845-46 the compositional styles of Schumann and Wagner changed in a common direction, toward a style that was more contrapuntal, more densely motivic, and engaged in processes of thematic transformation. Reynolds shows that the stylistic advances that both composers made in Dresden in 1845-46 stemmed from a d
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