Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, 1967
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This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817 97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet it remained unfinished at his death. His friend Hermann Deiters (1833 1907) edited and translated Thayer's work into German, publishing three volumes which covered Beethoven's life to 1816. Since Deiters also died before the biography could be completed, musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849 1919) was called upon to conclude the work. The final German volumes appeared in 1907 and 1908. It was the American critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854 1923) who prepared the present work, the first and considerably revised English version, published in three volumes in 1921. Volume 2 covers the period 1803 18, including the custody wrangles over Beethoven's nephew.
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- Title
- Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II
- Author
- Elliot Forbes
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication year
- 1967
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691027188
- ISBN 13
- 9780691027180
- Series
- Book 2 of 2: Thayer's Life of Beethoven
Volume two of the landmark biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven has long been regarded as the classic biography of Beethoven. To gather the necessary materials, he went to Europe; there, he spent most of his life seeking out those persons still alive who had known Beethoven and studying the sources that were available. His biography succeeded in clearing away the romantic fiction that was then, in the 1870s, current and gave for the first time a full account of the composer’s life that was based on reliable, historical, method.
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