The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven
3 Volume Set
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- Authors:
- Alexander Wheelock Thayer
- Hermann Deiters
- Hugo Riemann
- Editor and Translator: Henry Edward Krehbiel
- Date Published: September 2013
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108064767
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This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet it remained unfinished at his death. His friend Hermann Deiters (1833–1907) edited and translated Thayer's work into German, publishing three volumes which covered Beethoven's life to 1816. Since Deiters also died before the biography could be completed, musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) was called upon to conclude the work. The final German volumes appeared in 1907 and 1908. It was the American critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854–1923) who prepared the present work, the first and considerably revised English version, published in three volumes in 1921. Volume 1 covers Beethoven's career up to 1802, Volume 2 covers the period 1803–18, and Volume 3 addresses Beethoven's final years, his ninth symphony and late quartets.
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- Date Published: September 2013
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108064767
- length: 1202 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 180 x 65 mm
- weight: 2.3kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Introduction
1. Fall of the ecclesiastical-civil states in Germany
2. Beethoven's ancestors in Belgium
3. Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Beethoven a pupil of Neefe
5. Elector Max Franz
6. Beethoven again
7. The family von Breuning
8. The national theatre of Elector Max Franz
9. The last three years of Beethoven's life in Bonn
10. Beethoven's creative activity in Bonn
11. Beethoven in Vienna
12. Music in Vienna at the time of Beethoven's arrival there
13. Beethoven in society
14. The years 1796 and 1797
15. General Bernadotte
16. Beethoven's social life in Vienna
17. Beethoven's character and personality
18. Beethoven's brothers
19. The year 1801
20. Important letters of 1801
21. Beethoven's love-affairs
22. The year 1802. Volume 2:
1. The year 1803
2. The year 1804
3. The year 1805
4. The year 1806
5. Beethoven's friends and patrons
6. Princes and counts as theatrical directors
7. The year 1808
8. Jerome Bonaparte's invitation
9. The years 1807–9
10. The year 1810
11. The year 1811
12. The year 1812
13. The year 1813
14. The year 1814
15. The year 1815
16. The year 1816
17. The year 1817
18. The year 1818. Volume 3:
1. The year 1819
2. End of litigation
3. The year 1822
4. The year 1823
5. The year 1824
6. Incidents and labors of the year 1824
7. The year 1825
8. A year of sickness and sorrow
9. Karl van Beethoven
10. The last days at Gneixendorf
General index
Index to compositions.
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