Beethoven and the creative process

Abstract

Approaching Beethoven's creative process. Part 1 Factors affecting Beethoven's creative process: Beethoven's artistic aims professional pressures extramusical factors recurring ideas. Part 2 Beethoven's compositional methods: the sketchbooks and their use the visual appearance of the sketches types and relationships of sketches the sketching of form and key the sketching of melody the vertical dimension and finishing touches. Part 3 Stages in the creative process: first conceptions - piano concerto in D minor, Op 31 No 2 planning the later movements - string quartet in B flat, Op 130 musical structure and vivid pictorialism - Meeresstille, Op 112 the problem of the joins - Egmont overture a creation in three phases - the late bagatelles a long-running revision - second piano concerto.

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