Antoine Reicha, ami de jeunesse de L. van Beethoven

Full-length biographies about Ludwig van Beethoven were not published until after the composer's death. During his lifetime, biographical articles in dictionaries and encyclopaedia...

AbstractThis article has been prompted by two recent works on the subject, the new and greatly expanded version published in 1981 of Nederlandse majolica by Dingeman Korf, a pionee...

"Polemic in the Concert Hall": the title of Richard Heuberger's article in the Neue freie Presse refers in no uncertain terms to the uproar surrounding Mahler's performances of Bee...

AbstractJan van Gool's Nieuwe Schouburg, published in two volumes in 1750 and 1751 (Note 1), was meant as a sequel to Arnold Houbraken's Groote Schouburgh and it does, indeed, dove...

The experience and awareness of boundaries forms an integral part of being human. This article investigates the systematic philosophical underpinnings of our understanding of the n...

Dit artikel gaat in op een aantal zeer ingrijpende reparaties van Amsterdamse gebouwen in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw. Het gaat daarbij om twee soorten reparaties: herstel va...

Abstract Deeply entrenched in Beethoven biography is the view that Christian Gottlob Neefe was the composer’s most important teacher in Bonn and that Beethoven was g...

This article takes a close look at a pair of well-known works by Gustav Klimt, the Nuda Veritas (1898) and the Beethoven Frieze (1902), and argues that the Schopenhauerian worldvie...

Abstract Several studies have been written on the subject of animals in the Ottoman Empire, with a focus on dogs in particular. Most of these studies cover the subject through...

The animalist says we are animals. This thesis is commonly understood as the universal generalization that all human persons are human animals. This article proposes an alternative...

WHEN A PLAY IS WIDELY ACCLAIMED as a masterpiece by critics who disagree radically about its nature and meaning, it may be that the work possesses such richness of content, such po...