Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II / Volume II / Volume II /

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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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Main Author: Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, 1817-1897
Other Authors: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923, Riemann, Hugo, 1849-1919, Deiters, Hermann, 1833-1907, Forbes, Elliot
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991, 1967.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, > 1770-1827
Beethoven, Ludwig van, > 1770-1827.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Includes indexes.
"Tenth paperback printing, for the first time in two volumes, 1991"--Title page verso.
Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.
Physical Description:1 online resource (552 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9781400843404

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