Thayer's life of Beethoven. / Revised and edited by Elliot Forbes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, 1817-1897.

Contributor:

Forbes, Elliot, editor.

Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923, editor.

Robert Frost Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Ludwig van Beethovens Leben. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Frost, Robert (donor) (Frost Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (1141 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : portraits, music ; 25 cm

Edition:

[Revised edition].

Other Title:

Life of Beethoven

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1967.

Contents:

1. The electoral court at Bonn

2. The Beethoven family

3. Beethoven's birth and childhood, 1770-1784

4. Elector Max Franz and his court ; The Von Breuning family ; The years 1784 to 1786

5. The years 1789 to 1788 ; The operatic seasons from 1789 to 1792

6. The years 1789 to 1792 ; The move to Vienna

7. The compositions written at Bonn, 1786-1792

8. Beethoven's teachers in Vienna ; Viennese composers and society

9. The years 1793 to 1795

10. The years 1796 to 1797

11. The years 1798 to 1799

12. Beethoven's friends and fellow musicians ; The Brunsvik family ; Character traits ; Sketchbooks ; Possible origin of deafness

13. The year 1800

14. The year 1801 : Correspondence with publishers ; Early criticisms of Beethoven's music ; Letters to Amenda and Wegeler concerning deafness ; Ferdinand Ries

15. The year 1802 : The Heiligenstadt testament ; Beethoven's brothers ; Correspondence with publishers

16. The year 1803 : The court theatre ; Work on the "erotica" symphony

17. The year 1804 : Beginning of work on "Leonore" ; The "erotica" privately performed ; Beethoven and Breuning ; Friendship with Countess Deym

18. The year 1805 : Public performance of the "erotica" ; Countess Josephine Deym ; "Leonore" completed and performed

19. The year 1806 : The revision of "Leonore" ; The Razumovsky quarters ; The fourth symphony

20. The year 1807 : Work on the fifth symphony ; The mass in c

21. The year 1808 : Completion of the fifth and sixth symphonies ; The concert of December 22nd

22. The year 1809 : The annuity contract ; The siege of Vienna ; Piano concerto no. 5

23. The year 1810 : Decrease in productivity ; Therese Malfatti ; Bettina Brentano

24. The year 1811 : Bettina, Beethoven and Goethe ; A sojourn in Teplitz ; Letters to the immortal beloved

25. The year 1812 : The Austrian Finanz-patent ; Second sojourn at Teplitz ; Letters to the immortal beloved

26. The year 1813 : Financial difficulties ; Suspension of payments ; Concerts at Graz ; Malzel and "Wellington's victory" ; Concerts of December 8 and 12

27. The year 1814 : Quarrel with Malzel ; The revision of "Fidelio" ; The Vienna congress

28. The year 1815 : Resolution of annuity payments ; Death of Carl Van Beethoven ; Guardianship of the nephew

29. The year 1816 : The nephew in Giannatasio Del Rio's school ; Negotiations with Ries, Birchall and Neate

30. The year 1817 : Beethoven and the public journals of Vienna ; An offer from the Philharmonic society of London ; Beethoven and the Metronome

31. The year 1818 : A mother's struggle for her son ; The pianoforte sonata op. 106

32. The year 1819 : Karl's education ; The conversation books ; Composition of the Missa Solemnis begun

33. The year 1820 : End of the guardianship litigation ; Missa Solemnis not ready for installation ceremony ; Pianoforte sonata in e major, op. 109

34. The year 1821 : Attacks of rheumatism and jaundice ; The pianoforte sonatas op. 110 and op. 111

35. The year 1822 : The Missa Solemnis ; Beethoven and the publishers ; The last pianoforte sonata ; Music for various occasions

36. The year 1823 : Subscriptions for the Missa Solemnis ; More negotiations with England ; Grillparzer and opera projects ; Progress of the ninth symphony

37. The year 1824 : The history of the ninth symphony ; Its first performance ; Continued negotiations with publishers ; Prince Galitzin and Opus 127

38. The year 1825 : Another invitation from London ; Increasing trouble with the nephew ; The three Galitzin quartets completed

39. The year 1826 through the Autumn : Difficulties with Prince Galitzin ; The nephew's attempt at suicide ; Gneixendorf ; The Last compositions

40. December, 1826-1827 : The return from Gneixendorf to Vienna ; The final illness ; Death and burial.

Notes:

Text paged continuously.

"Thayer's work was originally published in German, and it was not until 1921 that H. E. Krehbiel's English edition of the biography appeared. Since this time, Beethoven research has revealed new facts which necessitate a revision of the biography. The present editor, Elliot Forbes ... has incorporated these corrections and revisions in the spirit of Thayer's original approach and has presented them as he believes Thayer would have done had he had the advantage of knowing, through the discovery of new letters, sketchbooks, and documents, what is now known about Beethoven's life."--Note on slipcase.

"First publication of works after Beethoven's death": v. 2, p. 1077-1084.

Brick cloth covered boards with blue title label lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Top edges stained blue.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages xxiii-xxv) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Frost Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Robert Frost.

Frost Collection copy housed in slipcase.

Other Format:

Online version: Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, 1817-1897. Ludwig van Beethovens Leben. English. Thayer's life of Beethoven.

ISBN:

0691027021

9780691027029

OCLC:

50875