Book contents
- Beethoven Studies 4
- Beethoven Studies 4
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contents
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 From the Chapel to the Theatre to the Akademiensaal: Beethoven’s Musical Apprenticeship at the Bonn Electoral Court, 1784–1792
- 2 Gracious Beethoven?
- 3 Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphonies
- 4 Beethoven as Sentimentalist
- 5 Beethoven’s Nature: Idealism and Sovereignty from an Ecocritical Perspective
- 6 (Cross-)Gendering the German Voice
- 7 Beethoven and Tonal Prototypes: An Inherited and Developing Relationship
- 8 Shared Identities and Thwarted Narratives: Beethoven and the Austrian Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1817–1824
- 9 Composing with a Dictionary: Sounding the Word in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
- 10 Deafly Performing Beethoven’s Last Three Piano Sonatas
- Index of Beethoven’s Works
- General Index
3 - Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphonies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2020
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Book contents
- Beethoven Studies 4
- Beethoven Studies 4
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contents
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 From the Chapel to the Theatre to the Akademiensaal: Beethoven’s Musical Apprenticeship at the Bonn Electoral Court, 1784–1792
- 2 Gracious Beethoven?
- 3 Beethoven’s Unfinished Symphonies
- 4 Beethoven as Sentimentalist
- 5 Beethoven’s Nature: Idealism and Sovereignty from an Ecocritical Perspective
- 6 (Cross-)Gendering the German Voice
- 7 Beethoven and Tonal Prototypes: An Inherited and Developing Relationship
- 8 Shared Identities and Thwarted Narratives: Beethoven and the Austrian Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, 1817–1824
- 9 Composing with a Dictionary: Sounding the Word in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis
- 10 Deafly Performing Beethoven’s Last Three Piano Sonatas
- Index of Beethoven’s Works
- General Index
Summary
In 1875 the pioneering early authority on Beethoven’s sketches, Gustav Nottebohm, claimed that had the composer completed as many symphonies as were begun in the sketchbooks, then his total output of such works would have exceeded fifty. This essay is the first to scrutinize that claim. A comprehensive study of Beethoven’s sketches from his youth to the last years of his life reveals Nottebohm’s claim to be remarkably accurate. As well as detailed study of the musical evidence the essay presents a thematic catalogue of unfinished – or barely begun – symphonies.
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- Beethoven Studies 4 , pp. 44 - 81Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020