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Hearing Beethoven Robin Wallace. Beethoven for a Later Age Edward Dusinberre. The two musical notebooks belonging to her continue to live on, beloved by millions of pianists young and old.
Yet the pedagogical utility of this musicโlong associated with the sound of children practicing and mothers listeningโhas encouraged a rosy and one-sided view of Anna Magdalena as a model of German feminine domesticity.
Sex, Death, and Minuets offers the first in-depth study of these notebooks and their owner, reanimating Anna Magdalena as a multifaceted historical subjectโat once pious and bawdy, spirited and tragic. In these pages, we follow Magdalena from young and flamboyant performer to bereft and impoverished widowโand visit along the way the coffee house, the raucous wedding feast, and the family home.
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What emerges is a humane portrait of a musician who embraced the sensuality of song and the uplift of the keyboard, a sometimes ribald wife and oft-bereaved mother who used her cherished musical notebooks for piety and play, humor and devotionโfor living and for dying. Table of Contents. Laurence Dreyfus, University of Oxford. Bettina Varwig, University of Cambridge.
