Beethoven

Excerpt from Beethoven: A Character Study; Together With Wagner''s Indebtedness to BeethovenOn reaching manhood he found a world in transition; he realized that he was on the threshold of a new order of things and with ready prescience took advantage of such as could be utilized in his art. Through Beethoven the resources of the orchestra were increased an added range was given the keyboard of the piano the human voice was given tasks that at the time seemed impossible of achievement. He established the precedent which Wagner acted on later of employing the human voice as a tool an instrument to be used in the exigencies of his art as if it were a part of the orchestra.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.