Thayer S Life Of Beethoven


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Thayer S Life Of Beethoven


Thayer S Life Of Beethoven
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1992-04-12

Thayer S Life Of Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.



Thayer S Life Of Beethoven


Thayer S Life Of Beethoven
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1967-05-21

Thayer S Life Of Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.



The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete


The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28

The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


If for no other reasons than because of the long time and monumental patience expended upon its preparation, the vicissitudes through which it has passed and the varied and arduous labors bestowed upon it by the author and his editors, the history of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set forth as an introduction to this work. His work it is, and his monument, though others have labored long and painstakingly upon it. There has been no considerable time since the middle of the last century when it has not occupied the minds of the author and those who have been associated with him in its creation. Between the conception of its plan and its execution there lies a period of more than two generations. Four men have labored zealously and affectionately upon its pages, and the fruits of more than four score men, stimulated to investigation by the first revelations made by the author, have been conserved in the ultimate form of the biography. It was seventeen years after Mr. Thayer entered upon what proved to be his life-task before he gave the first volume to the world—and then in a foreign tongue; it was thirteen more before the third volume came from the press. This volume, moreover, left the work unfinished, and thirty-two years more had to elapse before it was completed. When this was done the patient and self-sacrificing investigator was dead; he did not live to finish it himself nor to see it finished by his faithful collaborator of many years, Dr. Deiters; neither did he live to look upon a single printed page in the language in which he had written that portion of the work published in his lifetime. It was left for another hand to prepare the English edition of an American writer’s history of Germany’s greatest tone-poet, and to write its concluding chapters, as he believes, in the spirit of the original author. Under these circumstances there can be no vainglory in asserting that the appearance of this edition of Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set down as a significant occurrence in musical history. In it is told for the first time in the language of the great biographer the true story of the man Beethoven—his history stripped of the silly sentimental romance with which early writers and their later imitators and copyists invested it so thickly that the real humanity, the humanliness, of the composer has never been presented to the world. In this biography there appears the veritable Beethoven set down in his true environment of men and things—the man as he actually was, the man as he himself, like Cromwell, asked to be shown for the information of posterity. It is doubtful if any other great man’s history has been so encrusted with fiction as Beethoven’s. Except Thayer’s, no biography of him has been written which presents him in his true light. The majority of the books which have been written of late years repeat many of the errors and falsehoods made current in the first books which were written about him. A great many of these errors and falsehoods are in the account of the composer’s last sickness and death, and were either inventions or exaggerations designed by their utterers to add pathos to a narrative which in unadorned truth is a hundredfold more pathetic than any tale of fiction could possibly be. Other errors have concealed the truth in the story of Beethoven’s guardianship of his nephew, his relations with his brothers, the origin and nature of his fatal illness, his dealings with his publishers and patrons, the generous attempt of the Philharmonic Society of London to extend help to him when upon his deathbed.



Thayer S Life Of Beethoven


Thayer S Life Of Beethoven
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1967-05-21

Thayer S Life Of Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.



Life Of Beethoven


Life Of Beethoven
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

Life Of Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with categories.


Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Theyer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, J. Riemenn, and J. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.



The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Vol 1 3


The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Vol 1 3
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-12

The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Vol 1 3 written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven is the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, covering Beethoven's life to 1816. Thayer became aware of many discrepancies in the already existing biographies of Beethoven, so in 1849 he sailed for Europe to undertake his own researches, learning German and collecting information. Still after many updates Thayer's biography of Beethoven is regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.



Thayer S Life Of Beethoven Part Ii


Thayer S Life Of Beethoven Part Ii
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Author : Elliot Forbes
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13

Thayer S Life Of Beethoven Part Ii written by Elliot Forbes and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Music categories.


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.



Beethoven


Beethoven
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Author : Jan Swafford
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-09-02

Beethoven written by Jan Swafford and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Music categories.


Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year 'Magisterial, warm, and engaging . . . A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity . . . Jan Swafford is to be saluted.' Independent Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and 'fate's hammer', his ever-encroaching deafness. At the time of his death he was so widely celebrated that over ten thousand people attended his funeral. This book is a biography of Beethoven the man and musician, not the myth, and throughout, Swafford - himself a composer - offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works. More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.



Ludwig Van Beethoven Biography In 3 Volumes


Ludwig Van Beethoven Biography In 3 Volumes
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Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-16

Ludwig Van Beethoven Biography In 3 Volumes written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


This biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, covering Beethoven's life to 1816. Thayer became aware of many discrepancies in the already existing biographies of Beethoven, so in 1849 he sailed for Europe to undertake his own researches, learning German and collecting information. Still after many updates Thayer's biography of Beethoven is regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.



Beethoven


Beethoven
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Author : Edmund Morris
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13

Beethoven written by Edmund Morris and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Music categories.


Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces, such as his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies. With sensitivity and insight, Edmund Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived "on the other side of silence."