Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I / / ed. by Elliot Forbes.
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1992 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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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