The Symphony Since Beethoven: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Symphony Since Beethoven, credited to Felix Weingartner, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Symphony Since Beethoven
• Author credits: Felix Weingartner
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 2:39:46

Catalogue topics

• Beethoven
• musicology
• symphony
• music history

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface and Introduction — 12:32
2. 01 - Haydn-Shubert — 12:43
3. 02 - Mendelssohn — 6:55
4. 03 - Schumann — 13:08
5. 04 - Brahms — 20:38
6. 05 - Bruckner and Foreign Composers — 11:31
7. 06 - Berlioz — 33:06
8. 07 - Liszt — 27:03
9. 08 - Modern Composers and Conclusion — 22:10

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