Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I / / ed. by Elliot Forbes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Forbes, Elliot,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (656 p.)

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- VOLUME I -- From the crayon drawing by Stephan Decker (1824) -- Chapter 1. The Electoral Court at Bonn -- Chapter 2. The Beethoven Family -- Chapter 3. Beethoven's Birth and Childhood, 1770-1784 -- Chapter 4. Elector Max Franz and his Court—The Von Breuning Family—The Years 1784 to 1786 -- Chapter 5. The Years 1787 to 1788—The Operatic Seasons from 1789 to 1792 -- Chapter 6. The Years 1789 to 1792—The Move to Vienna -- Chapter 7. The Compositions Written at Bonn, 1786-1792 -- Chapter 8. Beethoven's Teachers in Vienna—Viennese Composers and Society -- Chapter 9. The Years 1793 to 1795 -- Chapter 10. The Years 1796 and 1797 -- Chapter 11. The Years 1798 and 1799 -- Chapter 12. Beethoven's Friends and Fellow Musicians—The Brunsvik Family—Character Traits—Sketchbooks— Possible Origin of Deafness -- Chapter 13. The Year 1800 -- Chapter 14. The Year 1801. Correspondence with Publishers- Early Criticisms of Beethoven's Music—Letters to Amenda and Wegeler Corfcerning Deafness —Ferdinand Ries -- Chapter 15. The Year 1802. The Heiligenstadt Testament—Beethoven's Brothers—Correspondence with Publishers -- Chapter 16. The Year 1803. The Court Theatre—Work on the "Eroica" Symphony -- Chapter 17. The Year 1804. Beginning of Work on "Leonore"— The "Eroica" Privately Performed—Beethoven and Breuning—Friendship with Countess Deym -- Chapter 18. The Year 1805. Public Performance of the "Eroica"— Countess Josephine Deym—"Leonore" Completed and Performed -- Chapter 19. The Year 1806. The Revision of "Leonore"—The Razumovsky Quartets—The Fourth Symphony -- Chapter 20. The Year 1807. Work on the Fifth Symphony—The Mass in C -- Chapter 21. The Year 1808. Completion of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies—The Concert of December 22nd -- Chapter 22. The Year 1809. The Annuity Contract—The Siege of Vienna—Piano Concerto No. 5 -- Chapter 23. The Year 1810. Decrease in Productivity—Therese Malfatti—Bettina Brentano -- Chapter 24. The Year 1811. Bettina, Beethoven and Goethe—A Sojourn in Teplitz—Sketches for New Symphonies -- Chapter 25. The Year 1812. The Austrian Finanz-Patent—Second Sojourn at Teplitz—Letters to the Immortal Beloved -- Chapter 26. The Year 1813. Financial Difficulties—Suspension of Payments—Concerts at Graz—Malzel and "Wellington's Victory"—Concerts of December 8 and 12 -- Chapter 27. The Year 1814. Quarrel with Malzel—The Revision of "Fidelio"—The Vienna Congress