Beethoven; a critical biography . iano with various instruments; two collectionsof Viennese dances; music to the ballet Prometheus; twelvesongs; three piano-concertos; the grand Septet; and theFirst Symphony. The naming of the first period Hhe period of unitationcan be justified without difficulty; for we constantly meetwith traces of a mind preoccupied with, or unconsciouslycopying, some work of his contemporaries or of the precedinggeneration. Having only a slight, or incomplete, acquaint-ance with the grand ancestral figures of music, Beethovendoes not yet employ that polyphonic style which
Beethoven; a critical biography . iano with various instruments; two collectionsof Viennese dances; music to the ballet Prometheus; twelvesongs; three piano-concertos; the grand Septet; and theFirst Symphony. The naming of the first period Hhe period of unitationcan be justified without difficulty; for we constantly meetwith traces of a mind preoccupied with, or unconsciouslycopying, some work of his contemporaries or of the precedinggeneration. Having only a slight, or incomplete, acquaint-ance with the grand ancestral figures of music, Beethovendoes not yet employ that polyphonic style which is later topresent us the last quartets; though famiUar with Bachspieces for harpsichord, he does not venture on writing in thefugued style exhibited in his third period. A virtuoso byvocation, he intends to remain a virtuoso, and almost all * While Beethoven was alive, twenty-one of these works were issuedat various dates; his brother Carl sold some others for his own profit;twenty-eight remained unpublished. f 14 1 0 n a t e n.
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