Course Talks

Pre-class:

     Who was Beethoven? 


Week 1:

     Classicism vs. Romanticism

     Locating Beethoven in Music History

     The Structure of the Classical Symphonic Form

     Beethoven's Compositional Practices

     Beethoven in Vienna, 1793 - 1800


Week 2:

     Beethoven's deafness: The Heiligenstadt Testament  (1802)  (text)  

     Beethoven in Vienna, 1801 - 1809 

     The Enlightenment and the French Revolution


Week 3:

    The Aufklärung (German Enlightenment)

    Proto-Romanticism in the Neoclassical Era

   19th century Romantic Poetry and Literature


Week 4:

   Beethoven in Vienna, 1810 - 1815


Week 5: 

     Discussion of The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824



Extras...

     What does "Classical" mean? 

     Vienna, 1780s - 1800 

     A Brief History of Germany, 1618 - 1871  (Including a History of Prussia)

     Eras in the European Arts, 1400 - 1850

     A list of German & Austrian Composers with links to their biographies.

     German Architecture in the 18th Century