Thayer's life of Beethoven. Volume II / revised and edited by Elliot Forbes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forbes, Elliot, editor.

Standardized Title:

Ludwig van Beethovens Leben. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 569 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven. has long been recognized as the classic biography of Beethoven. "Thayer, with his calm and logical mind, scrupulous, magnanimous and spacious...had set out to describe for posterity the great man as he was and lived...and his patient realism and all but inexhaustible industry had created an irreplaceable and masterly portrait." So Van Wyck Brooks described this monumental work of the 1880's. Thayer talked with Beethoven's surviving friends, gathered anecdotes, and sifted hundreds of documents. The resulting wealth of detail stimulated other students, and a mass of Beethoven scholarship appeared. Now Elliot Forbes, one of the foremost Beethoven scholars of our time, has used this new material to bring the Life up to elate without sacrificing Thayer's text.

Contents:

Chapter 28. The year 1815. Resolution of annuity payments - death of Carl Van Beethoven - guardianshp of the nephew

Chapter 29. The year 1816. The nephew in Giannatasio Del Rio's School - negotiations with Ries, Birchall and Neate

Chapter 30. The year 1817. Beethoven and the public journals of Vienna - an offer the from the Philharmonic Society of London - Beethoven and the Metronome

Chapter 31. The year 1818. A mother's stuggle for her son - The Pianoforte Sonata Op. 106

Chapter 32. The year 1819. Karl's education - The conversation books - composition of the Missa Solemnis begun

Chapter 33. The year 1820. End of the guardianship litigation - Missa Solemnis not ready for installation ceremony - Pianoforte Sonata in E Major, Op. 109

Chapter 34. The year 1821. Attacks of rheumatism and jaundice - the Pianoforte Sonatas Op. 110 and Op. 111

Chapter 35. The year 1822. The Miss Solemnis - Beethoven and the publishers - The last Pianoforte Sonata - music for various occassions

Chapter 36. The year 1823. Subscriptions for the Miss Solemnis - more negotiations with England - Grillparzer and opera projects - progress of the Ninth Symphony

Chapter 37. The year 1824. The history of the Ninth Symphony - its first performance

continued negotiations with publishers - Prince Galitzin and Opus 127

Chapter 38. The year 1825. Another invitation from London - increasing trouble with the nephew - three Galitzin quartets completed

Chapter 39. The year 1826 through the Autumn. Difficulties with Prince Galitzin - the nephew's attempt at suicide - Gneixendorf - the last compositions

Chapter 40. December, 1826-1827. The return from Gneixendorf to Vienna - the final illness - death and burial

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

Appendix G

Appendix H

Appendix I.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781400843404

OCLC:

1259322145