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Thayer's Life of Beethoven. Volume ll /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, 1817-1897 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Forbes, Elliot (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1967
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 28. The year 1815 : Resolution of annuity payments ; Death of Carl Van Beethoven ; Guardianship of the nephew
  • 29. The year 1816 : The nephew in Giannatasio Del Rio's school ; Negotiations with Ries, Birchall and Neate
  • 30. The year 1817 : Beethoven and the public journals of Vienna ; An offer from the Philharmonic society of London ; Beethoven and the Metronome
  • 31. The year 1818 : A mother's struggle for her son ; The pianoforte sonata op. 106
  • 32. The year 1819 : Karl's education ; The conversation books ; Composition of the Missa Solemnis begun
  • 33. The year 1820 : End of the guardianship litigation ; Missa Solemnis not ready for installation ceremony ; Pianoforte sonata in e major, op. 109
  • 34. The year 1821 : Attacks of rheumatism and jaundice ; The pianoforte sonatas op. 110 and op. 111
  • 35. The year 1822 : The Missa Solemnis ; Beethoven and the publishers ; The last pianoforte sonata ; Music for various occasions
  • 36. The year 1823 : Subscriptions for the Missa Solemnis ; More negotiations with England ; Grillparzer and opera projects ; Progress of the ninth symphony
  • 37. The year 1824 : The history of the ninth symphony ; Its first performance ; Continued negotiations with publishers ; Prince Galitzin and Opus 127
  • 38. The year 1825 : Another invitation from London ; Increasing trouble with the nephew ; The three Galitzin quartets completed
  • 39. The year 1826 through the Autumn : Difficulties with Prince Galitzin ; The nephew's attempt at suicide ; Gneixendorf ; The Last compositions
  • 40. December, 1826-1827 : The return from Gneixendorf to Vienna ; The final illness ; Death and burial
  • Appendices.