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Beethoven's lives : the biographical tradition / Lewis Lockwood.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B4 L598 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lockwood, Lewis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Composers--Germany--Biography.
- Composers.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 209 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Earliest Biographers
- Grillparzer's Funeral Oration, 1827
- Contemporary Observers
- Early Attempts and Rivalries
- Wegeler and Ries, 1838
- 2. Beethoven Biography, 1840-c. 1875
- The Emergence of Beethoven Biography
- Anton Schindler as Biographer and Falsifier, 1840-60
- Alexander Wheelock Thayer and the Pursuit of Truth: His Earlier Work, 1849-66
- Lenz, Marx, and Nohl
- Nottebohm on the Composer at Work
- Richard Wagner and G. E. Anders: A Projected Beethoven Biography (1841)
- 3. The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- The Newly Enlarged Context for Beethoven Biography
- Beethoven Biographies and Related Works, c. 1870-1927
- Thayer's Later Contributions, 1867-97
- German Biographers, c. 1870-1935
- The French Tradition: Romain Rolland; Vincent D'Indy; others
- The English Tradition: George Grove; Donald Francis Tovey; Marion Scott; J. W. N. Sullivan
- 4. Beethoven Biography and European Politics, 1933-77
- German Beethoven Scholarship in the Nazi Period (1933-45)
- East Germany and West Germany, 1945-77
- Austrian Beethoven Conferences, 1970 and 1977
- Bonn, Berlin, and Detroit, 1970 and 1977
- 5. The Modern Era
- The Bicentenary Year 1970: Two Contrasting Biographies
- Maynard Solomon, 1977 and 1998
- Kerman, Tyson, and Kropfinger, 1980 and 2000
- Recent Biographies
- Other Recent Biographies
- 6. Exploring Beethoven's Life and Work: Three Sample Years
- 1787: The Young Beethoven's Journey to Vienna
- 1809: War; the Archduke Rudolph
- 1826: The Final Phase; the Late Quartets; Karl's Attempted Suicide; the Last Months
- 7. Reminiscences and Reflections
- Future Prospects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783275519
- 1783275510
- OCLC:
- 1198595629
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