Beethoven's conversation books / edited and translated by Theodore Albrecht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, author.

Contributor:

Albrecht, Theodore, editor, translator.

Standardized Title:

Konversationshefte. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Sources.

Composers--Austria--Biography.

Composers.

Austria.

Genre:

notebooks.

Biographies.

Sources.

Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.

Notebooks.

Physical Description:

volumes <1-4> : illustrations, maps, portraits, music ; 24 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : The Boydell Press, 2018-<2022>

Summary:

"Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had begun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Often, he himself used the pocket-sized booklets to make shopping lists and other reminders, including occasional early sketches for his compositions. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the years 1818 up to the composer's death in 1827 and including such topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre, religion, and education as perceived on a day-to-day basis in post-Napoleonic Europe. An East German edition, begun in the 1960s and essentially complete by 2001, represents a diplomatic transcription of these documents. It is a masterpiece of pure scholarship but is difficult to use for anyone who is not a specialist. Moreover, Beethoven scholarship has moved on significantly since the long-ranging genesis of the German edition. These important booklets are here translated into English in their entirety for the first time. The volumes in this series include an updated editorial apparatus, with revised and expanded notes and many new footnotes exclusive to this edition, and brand new introductions, which together place many of the quickly changing conversational topics into context"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Volume 1. Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820)

Volume 2. Nos. 9 to 16 (March 1820 to September 1820)

Volume 3. Nos. 17 to 31 (May 1822 to May 1823)

Volume 4. Nos. 32 to 43 (May 1823 to September 1823)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

LC awaiting receipt of Volume 3.

ISBN:

9781783271504

1783271507

9781783271511

1783271515

9781783271528

1783271523

9781783276219

1783276215

OCLC:

1130900934