Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II / / 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]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- CONTENTS -- VOLUME II -- From the oil portrait by W. J. Mahler (1804) -- After the bust by Franz Klein (1812) -- Chapter 28. The Year 1815. Resolution of Annuity Payments— Death of Carl Van Beethoven—Guardianship 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 from the Philharmonic Society of London—Beethoven and the Metronome -- Chapter 31. The Year 1818. A Mother's Struggle 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. n o and Op. i n -- Chapter 35. The Year 1822. The Missa Solemnis— Beethoven and the Publishers—The Last Pianoforte Sonata- Music for Various Occasions -- Chapter 36. The Year 1823. Subscriptions for the Missa 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—The 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 -- Index