The Symphony Since Beethoven

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Symphony Since Beethoven by Felix Weingartner. (Translated by Maude Barrows Dutton.) Read in English by realisticspeakers This 1904 book by composer, conductor and pianist Felix Weingartner examines the development of the symphony as a musical form since one of its greatest practitioners, Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven's symphonic works gave the symphony an unprecedented importance as an art form and inspired his contemporaries and later composers to take it more seriously. Weingartner helped create a widespread appreciation for Beethoven's symphonies through his writings on, and performances of, these works. He conducted all of Beethoven's symphonies, and was the first conductor to make commercial recordings of all nine of them. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (72MB)

Directors & creators

Felix Weingartner

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Beethoven; musicology; symphony; music history

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