
The Life & Times of Beethoven
The First Angry Man
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Robert Greenberg
In The Life & Times of Beethoven, celebrated composer and music historian Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances gives you a unique perspective on a musical genius the likes of which the world had never seen before - or since.
Blending biography, history, and music appreciation, these 10 lectures portray Beethoven’s extraordinary (and still modern-sounding) music as a direct outgrowth of his life, environment, and interior emotional landscape. What makes Beethoven’s anger so special is that he was the first composer to portray his own raw (sometimes even violent) emotions directly in his music. As a result, for more than 200 years, works like his later quartets, his Hammerklavier sonata, and his Symphony No. 9, have moved, touched, and sometimes even frightened listeners in a manner almost primal.
Professor Greenberg lays bare the links between Beethoven’s life and his incredible output of music. Listeners will learn:
- How the crisis involving Beethoven’s hearing became a catalyst for his musical creativity and originality,
- How Beethoven’s infatuation with Napoleon helped him change the language of Western music,
- How Beethoven’s “Heroic Music” helped the composer symbolically overcome his pain and unhappiness,
- How six factors contributed to Beethoven’s crushing fall from popular grace in 1815,
- How Beethoven revolutionized the genre of string quartets during the last two years of his compositional life, and much more!
These lectures give an unforgettable perspective of an angry, alienated composer, who, nevertheless, translated personal defeats into musical triumphs.
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About the Professor
Dr. Robert Greenberg is a Music Historian-in-Residence with San Francisco Performances. A graduate of Princeton University, Professor Greenberg holds a PhD in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley. He has seen his compositions—which include more than 45 works for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles—performed all over the world, including New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, England, Ireland, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands. He has served on the faculties of the University of California, Berkeley; California State University, Hayward; and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and has lectured for some of the most prestigious musical and arts organizations in the United States, including the San Francisco Symphony, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Van Cliburn Foundation, and the Chicago Symphony. For The Great Courses, he has recorded more than 500 lectures on a range of composers and classical music genres. Professor Greenberg is a Steinway Artist. His many other honors include three Nicola de Lorenzo Composition Prizes and a Koussevitzky commission from the Library of Congress. He has been profiled in various major publications, including The Wall Street Journal; Inc. magazine; and the London Times.
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Just brilliant
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A Renowned Genius
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Beethoven
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I listened to this in parallel to reading Edmund Morris's biography of Beethoven, which I learned here was one of the three main sources Greenberg leaned on, in composing this biography. if I were to listen to it again, I would do so in parallel to listening to various compositions of Beethoven's, in time with the progress of the story.
The life behind, and within, the music
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Interesting
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Well Worth Your Time!
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Dramatic and entertaining
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Poor, poor Beethoven and his friends and family.
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Brilliant teacher - informative + entertaining!
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Cannot Say Enough
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