Beethoven S Pianoforte Sonatas Explained For The Lovers Of The Musical Art By Ernst Von Elterlein

Excerpt from Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas: Explained for the Lovers of the Musical Art To describe the contents of a musical work is always a difficult task; and it cannot be denied that a great deal of nonsense has been written, in the endeavour to analyze, describe, and annotate the works of great musical composers. No author has had to suffer more from the indiscreet zeal of busy shallow annotators than Ludwig van Beethoven no other composer's works have been so unwarrantably and unnecessarily overladen with weak description. The small work, Beethoven's clavier-sonatm fiir ezmde' der Tonkzmst erleiutert z'on Ems! Van Elm lein, stands forth as an honourable exception amidst the host of insipid commentaries on the great master's works - the multitudinous explanations that explain nothing. Elterlein's book appeared in Leipsic, in I856. It has, since that'year, gone through many editions, and has obtained great and deserved popularity in Germany. Although Herr von Elterlein is a musical amateur, he writes with the ripe knowledge and thorough understanding of a practical musician; and as the merits of his book speak for themselves, any further praise would be super uous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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