Beethoven and Russia 

Authors

  • Arkady Klimovitsky Author

Keywords:

Beethoven, Russian folk songs, patronage, count Andrei Razumovsky, Baron Philipp Klüpfel, Count Georg & Countess Anna Margarete Browne

Abstract

The article considers various connections of Beethoven’s contacts with Russian culture. First, it traces Beethoven’s ties with Russian aristocrats living in Vienna and working in the Russian Mission, who were generous patrons of the arts in general, and famous musicians in particular, and who commissioned musical compositions from Beethoven. Among these were Count Georg & Countess Anna Margarete Browne, Baron Philipp Adamovich Klüpfel, and Count Andrei Kirillovich Razumovsky. The article also discusses Beethoven’s use of Russian folk songs in compositions dedicated to these patrons. 

Author Biography

  • Arkady Klimovitsky

    Arkady Klimovitsky is a Russian musicologist, Dr. Habil, a Full Professor of St. Petersburg State Conservatory, St. Petersburg State University, and a Senior Researcher of the Russian Institute of Art History. He wrote his PhD (1961) on the emergence and development of sonata form in Domenico Scarlatti’s work and his Habilitation dissertation (1981) on Beethoven’s creative process. He is the author of P.I. Tchaikovsky: Cultural Anticipations, Cultural Memory, Cultural Interactions (2015), and more than a hundred articles. 

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Published

2024-07-18

Issue

Vol. 17 (2020)

Section

Articles