Embedded Files
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Facsimiles and Other Digital Resources
Digital Archive of the Beethoven Haus, Bonn
http://www.beethoven-haus-bonn.de/sixcms/detail.php?template=startseite_digitales_archiv_en
Beethoven Center at San José State University http://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/
Beethoven's Eroica: interactive score of excerpts from the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra www.keepingscore.org/sites/default/files/swf/beethoven/beethoven-full
Videos
Eroica: an imaginative reconstruction of the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony (2003, 84 minutes); on Youtube
The Eroica-Saal, the room in the Lobkowitz Palace in Vienna in which the Eroica Symphony was first performed in 1804
Hummel's Trumpet Concerto, played in the original key of E major by Manuel Blanco Gomez-Limon, on Youtube
Recordings
Example 17.2: "Clementi: Piano Sonatas Opp. 34, 41 & 50," Tanya Bannister, Piano, Naxos (available on Naxos Music Library); includes the Sonata in G minor, Op. 34, No. 2; performance by Vladimir Horowitz (1954) on Youtube
Example 17.3: "Michael Haydn: Missa Sancti Francisci, Requiem," cond. Helmuth Rilling, Hungaroton (available on Naxos Music Library); also available on Youtube
See also "Audio and Video Recordings to Accompany Anthology" (click at left)
Title page of Beethoven's Grande Sonate Pathétique, Op. 13, published in Vienna in 1802 and dedicated to Beethoven's patron Prince Carl Lichnowsky. Beethoven Center, San José State University
Reading
Beethoven and His World, ed. Scott Burnham and Michael Steinberg (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000) Worldcat
Broyles, Michael. The Emergence and Evolution of Beethoven's Heroic Style (New York: Excelsior, 1987) Worldcat
Burnham, Scott. Beethoven Hero (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995) Worldcat
Byros, Vasili. "Topics and Harmonic Schemata: A Case from Beethoven," The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory, ed. Danuta Mirka (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 381–414 Worldcat
The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, ed. Caryl Clark (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) Worldcat
Chen, Jen-yen. "Musical Culture and Social Ideology in Vienna circa 1800: Aristocratic Patronage and Bourgeois Reception of Joseph Haydn's Oratorios," Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 36 (2010), 189–215
Cook, Nicholas. "Representing Beethoven: Romance and Sonata Form in Simon Cellan Jones's Eroica," Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema, ed. Daniel Goldmark et al. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 27–47
Cherubini's Les Deux Journées, a piano-vocal score published in Leipzig around 1808, with the text in French and German. Here is the first page of Mikéli's aria "Guide mes pas, ô Providence."
DeNora, Tia. Beethoven and the Construction of Genius: Musical Politics in Vienna, 1792–1803 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) Worldcat
Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context, and Criticism, ed. Mary Hunter and Richard Will (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Worldcat
Ferraguto, Mark. "Beethoven à la moujik: Russianness and Learned Style in the 'Razumovsky' String Quartets," Journal of the American Musicological Society 67 (2014), 77–124; available on Academia.edu
Heartz, Daniel. "The Hunting Chorus in Haydn's Jahreszeiten and the 'Airs de Chasse' in the Encyclopédie," Eighteenth-Century Studies 9 (1976), 523–39 JSTOR
Heartz, Daniel. Mozart, Haydn, and Early Beethoven, 1781–1802 (New York: Norton, 2009), 675–789 Worldcat
Jones, David Wyn. Beethoven: The Pastoral Symphony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) Worldcat
Jones, David Wyn. The Symphony in Beethoven’s Vienna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Worldcat
A cowherd calls his animals with a horn at Heiligenstadt, near Vienna. Watercolor by Lorenz Janscha.
Kerman, Joseph. The Beethoven Quartets (New York: Norton, 1979) Worldcat
Kinderman, William. Beethoven (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) Worldcat
Landon, H. C. Robbins. Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Vol. 4: The Years of The Creation (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977) Worldcat
Landon, H. C. Robbins. Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Vol. 5: The Late Years, 1801–1809 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977) Worldcat
Lockwood, Lewis. Beethoven: The Music and the Life (New York: Norton, 2003) Worldcat
Mathew, Nicholas. Political Beethoven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) Worldcat
Menger, Pierre Michel. The Economics of Creativity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014; see especially chapter 5: "How Can Artistic Greatness Be Analyzed? Beethoven and His Genius." Worldcat
November, Nancy. Beethoven's Theatrical Quartets, Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) Worldcat
The title page of a manuscript copy of the Sinfonia eroica, with Beethoven's inscriptions and his erasure of his original dedication to Napoleon
Palisca, Claude. “French Revolutionary Models for Beethoven’s Eroica Funeral March, Music and Context: Essays for John M. Ward, ed. Anne Dhu Shapiro (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of Music, 1985), 198–209 Worldcat
Rice, John A. "The Musical Bee: References to Mozart and Cherubini in Hummel's 'New Year' Concerto," Music & Letters 77 (1996), 401–24 http://www.jstor.org/stable/737109; available on academia.edu
Rice, John A. Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792–1807 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003) Worldcat
Ringer, Alexander L., "Clementi and the Eroica," Musical Quarterly 47 (1961), 454–68 JSTOR
Sipe, Thomas. Beethoven: “Eroica Symphony” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) Worldcat
Sisman, Elaine. “Pathos and the Pathétique: Rhetorical Stance in Beethoven’s C-Minor Sonata, Op. 13, Beethoven Forum 3 (1994), 81–106 Worldcat
A detail of a hand-colored print by Hieronymus Löschenkohl depicts the performance of a Te Deum in the court chapel in Vienna in 1790. The conductor is probably Hofkapellmeister (court music director) Antonio Salieri. Only half of the performing forces are shown here; the other half stand in a choir loft on the other side of the chapel. After a decade in which church music played a relatively minor role in Vienna, thanks in part to the policies of Emperor Joseph II, the next emperor, Leopold II, initiated a period in which church music flourished.
Solomon, Maynard. Beethoven (New York, 1977) Worldcat
Stanley, Glenn. "Some Thoughts on Biography and a Chronology of Beethoven's Life and Music," in The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven, ed. Glenn Stanley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 3–13 Worldcat
Stewart-Macdonald, Rohan. "The Undiscovered Flight Paths of the 'Musical Bee': New Light on Hummel's Musical Quotations," Eighteenth-Century Music 3 (2006), 7–34 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=440464
Performance under the direction of Antonio Salieri of Haydn's Creation at the Old University Hall in Vienna on 27 March 1808. The 76-year-old composer attended; he can be seen seated in the front, at the center, wearing a black hat.
Swafford, Jan. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014) Worldcat
Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), vol. 2, 641–739 Worldcat
Volek, Tomislav, and Jaroslav Macek. "Beethoven's Rehearsals at the Lobkowitz's, Musical Times 127, 1986, 75–80 JSTOR
Will, Richard. The Characteristic Symphony in the Age of Haydn and Beethoven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Worldcat
Joseph Mähler, Portrait of Beethoven
Study Guide
Names, titles, and terms introduced in chapter 17
Emperor Francis
Napoleon Bonaparte
Missa in tempore belli
Wellington's Victory
Archduke Maximilian
Count Ferdinand Waldstein
Beethoven's Opus 18 string quartets
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Prince Carl von Lichnowsky
Grande Sonate Pathétique
Baron Gottfried van Swieten
Die Schöpfung
Die Jahreszeiten
Hört das laute Getön
Giuseppe Carpani
Treaty of Lunéville
Luigi Cherubini
Les deux journées
Fidelio
Empress Marie Therese
Michael Haydn
Missa Sancti Francisci
Heiligenstadt Testament
Ferdinand Ries
Sinfonia eroica
Guide mes pas, ô providence
Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
Prince Joseph Lobkowitz
Beethoven's String Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 74, "Harp"
Count Andrey Kyrillovich Razumovsky
Razumovsky Quartets, Op. 59
Johann Friedrich Reichhardt
Pastoral Symphony
Topics for discussion
Read the article "Beethoven's Rehearsals at the Lobkowitz's," by Tomislav Volek and Jaroslav Macek (cited above); then watch the film Eroica. Evaluate the film's historical accuracy, its musical plausibility, and its dramatic effectiveness.
Johann Friederich Reichardt, a German composer and writer on music, visited Vienna in 1808, meeting Haydn, Beethoven, and many other musicians, and attending several concerts. He recorded his experiences in letters that were subsequently published. Read the excerpts from these letters in Strunk's Source Readings in Music History: The Late Eighteenth Century, ed. Wye Jamison Allanbrook (New York: Norton, 1998), 295–307. How does Reichardt's picture of Viennese musical life at the end of our period correspond to the picture sketched in this chapter?
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