02145nam a22003258a 4500 CR9781139024068 UkCbUP 20171022142806.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110217s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139024068 (ebook) 9780521768054 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda ML196 .I58 2013 780.92/2 23 The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini : Historiography, Analysis, Criticism / Edited by Nicholas Mathew, Benjamin Walton. The Invention of Beethoven & Rossini Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (396 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Beethoven and Rossini have always been more than a pair of famous composers. Even during their lifetimes, they were well on the way to becoming 'Beethoven and Rossini' – a symbolic duo, who represented a contrast fundamental to Western music. This contrast was to shape the composition, performance, reception and historiography of music throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini puts leading scholars of opera and instrumental music into dialogue with each other, with the aim of unpicking the origins, consequences and fallacies of the opposition between the two composers and what they came to represent. In fifteen chapters, contributors explore topics ranging from the concert lives of early nineteenth-century capitals to the mythmaking of early cinema, and from the close analysis of individual works by Beethoven and Rossini to the cultural politics of nineteenth-century music histories. Mathew, Nicholas, editor of compilation. Walton, Benjamin, editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521768054 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139024068 229045 229045