Description
This study is intended as an extended critical report on the new edition of the Fifth Symphony. Through an almost criminalistics study of the sources, Brown arrives at astonishing conclusions. John Eliot Gardiner’s new recording proves that the results of his research can also be heard.
Clive Brown, musicologist and violinist, was a lecturer at Oxford University from 1980 to 1991, then Professor of Applied Musicology (now Emeritus Professor) at the University of Leeds.
His source studies and research on historical performance practice are summarized in the book “Classical and Romantic Performing Practice” (OUP).
As a Beethoven editor, he is best known for his editions of the Fifth Symphony and the Choral Fantasy published by Breitkopf & Härtel.
BV 307
EAN: 9783765103070
104 pages / 16.5 x 24.5 cm / 234 g / softcover
Description
Description
This study is intended as an extended critical report on the new edition of the Fifth Symphony. Through an almost criminalistics study of the sources, Brown arrives at astonishing conclusions. John Eliot Gardiner’s new recording proves that the results of his research can also be heard.
Clive Brown, musicologist and violinist, was a lecturer at Oxford University from 1980 to 1991, then Professor of Applied Musicology (now Emeritus Professor) at the University of Leeds.
His source studies and research on historical performance practice are summarized in the book “Classical and Romantic Performing Practice” (OUP).
As a Beethoven editor, he is best known for his editions of the Fifth Symphony and the Choral Fantasy published by Breitkopf & Härtel.