Musical Improvisation and Open Forms in the Age of Beethoven - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1138222968 ISBN 13: 9781138222960

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

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Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late eighteenth century through to the middle of the nineteenth, representing a central moment in both public occasions and the private lives of many artists. Composers dedicated themselves to this practice at length while formulating the musical ideas later found at the core of their published works; improvisation was thus closely linked to composition itself. The full extent of this relation can be inferred from both private documents and reviews of concerts featuring improvisations, while these texts also inform us that composers quite often performed in public as both improvisers and interpreters of pieces written by themselves or others. Improvisations presented in concert were distinguished by a remarkable degree of structural organisation and complexity, demonstrating performers' consolidated abilities in composition as well as their familiarity with the rules for improvising outlined by theoreticians.

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Gianmario Borio

is Professor of Musicology at the University of Pavia and director of the Institute of Music at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice. His publications deal with several aspects of the music of the twentieth century, the history of musical concepts and the theory of musical form.

Angela Carone has been a collaborator at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice since 2013. Among other topics, she has published essays on Carl Czerny, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann’s instrumental works and the concepts of musical work and style in the eighteenth to early nineteenth century.

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• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138222968
• ISBN 13: 9781138222960
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244
• Herausgeber: Borio Gianmario, Carone Angela
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