Makes available both a complete facsimile and transcription of Beethoven's "Eroica" sketchbook for the first time, along with a detailed commentary on the origins, contents, and significance of this vitally important source.
Lewis Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of Beethoven: The Music and the Life as well as other books on Beethoven. Alan Gosman is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Michigan.
"A very impressive scholarly edition of the most famous and
important of Beethoven's sketchbooks, long treasured for their
illumination of Beethoven's works. The difficult notations are
deciphered scrupulously and ingeniously, and Lockwood and Gosman
have not hesitated to add their clarifications of obscure notations
right on the transcription pages."--Joseph Kerman, author of
Opera and the Morbidity of Music
"Without question, the publication of this book is a cause for
rejoicing among the community of Beethoven scholars and all those
who undertake serious studies of Beethoven's music. Lockwood and
Gosman's transcription of Beethoven's notoriously difficult
notation is an achievement of the first order."--Richard Kramer,
author of Unfinished Music
"For Lockwood himself it must be reckoned the crowning achievement
of a highly distinguished career that is even yet not over. . . . I
welcome this hugely impressive work by Lockwood and Gosman. It
finally completes a circle that leads all the way back to 1880 and
to Nottebohm, and at last brings Landsberg 6 before our eyes and
ears."-Music and Letters
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