Beethoven : the man who freed music / by Robert Haven Schauffler.

Author/creator Schauffler, Robert Haven
Format Book
Publication InfoGarden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran, 1933, ©1929.
Description693 pages, 30 leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 25cm
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Variant title Man who freed music
Contents Part I. His life and works. The nickname. Ludwig's nickname ; Daydreams ; "Scratch according to the notes!" ; Ancestry ; Influence of Flemish blood ; Grandfather Ludovicus ; Father John the Gullet-Baptist ; Mother Maria Magdalena -- A town of music lovers. Ludwig's birth, December 16, 1770 ; No. 20 Bonngasse ; Family misery ; A musical atmosphere ; How the elector sacked the classics ; The elector's love of a practical joke ; 1780, Max Franz, a fiddling elector ; A street of music lovers ; Early trios op. 1, 3, 8, and 9 ; Second-violin trouble ; "Man, help thyself!" ; A rich period for the arts ; Teachers -- The Spanish castle tunes. Neefe, the music master 1779 ; Hiller's aesthetic ideas ; Music vs. literature ; The bagatelles of 1782 ; Starting the ball of Romanticism ; Becomes court organist, 1784 ; Visits Vienna, 1787 ; Praise from Mozart ; Mother's death ; A second home at the Von Breunings ; Slow ripening ; Count Waldstein ; Improvisation ; Head of the family ; Encouragement from Haydn, 1792 ; Name first joined with those of Mozart and Haydn -- Young Pygmalion and the plaster casts. Vienna, 1792 ; Social success ; Dress and dance ; Haydn's neglect ; Lessons from Schenck Sub Rosa ; Studies with Albrechtsberger, 1793-1795 ; Fugues and the breath of life -- The musician moves above the salt. Discipline ; Revolt ; Studies with Salieri ; Attic to palace ; A talented nobility ; Privileges at court ; Outwitting the musical parasites ; Proud independence -- He comes, he plays, he conquers. Musical conditions in Vienna ; First public appearance in Vienna, 1795 ; B flat piano concerto ; Presence of mind at rehearsal ; Making money ; Father's death ; Sends for brothers ; Trios, op. 1 ; Haydn's attitude towards them ; "Joseph Vance" tunes ; Ambition -- "The great mogul". 1796, first piano sonatas ; First violoncello sonatas ; Disgusted by listeners' tears ; His one-way sense of humour ; 1797, E flat sonata ; New friends ; Strength, his morality ; Was Beethoven conceited? ; Haydn and Prometheus ; Humility towards forerunners ; Socialistic ideas ; "I too am a King!" ; Ridicules Prince Lobkowitz ; Describes friends as "Instruments on which I play" ; Quick alternations of a mood ; Jekyll and Hyde -- Catastrophe fingers the knocker. 1798, approach of deafness ; Despairing music ; Sonatas op. 10 ; Courage ; 1799, Sonate Pathetique ; Pianistic depths and modernity ; The epoch-making germ-motive ; Its interlocking of movements ; Its far-reaching influence ; The source-motive ; Groups of compositions thematically interlocked ; Emotional extremes in his music -- Beethoven hugs the contrabass. Learns from virtuosos ; Plays with Dragonetti, 1799 ; Original cure for a financial crisis ; The Beethoven myth ; Hurls dish at waiter ; Fun in his music -- Finding his medium. Cautious approach to new forms ; 1800, first symphony ; Septet ; The string quartet as a vehicle ; The Lobkowitz quarters, op. 18 ; The first piece of jazz ; His first real Chef d'Oeuvre ; The Schuppanzigh quartet ; Lichnowsky gives Beethoven Cremona Fiddles and annuity -- Prometheus writes a ballet. 1800, piano duel with Steibelt ; Robinson Crusoe costume ; His difficult personality ; Enmity of rivals ; 1801, indelible sonata in B flat ; "Pastoral" sonata ; Passion for out-of-doors ; 1801, Prometheus ballet ; 1802, the pirated string quintet ; Freer handling of form in op. 26 and 27 ; A flat sonata ; The variation forum ; Origin of funeral march ; Musical parody ; 1802, "Moonlight" sonata ; Legends ; Possible interpretations ; Violin sonatas, F major and C minor -- Le grand sourd. The rift in the lute ; First admissions of deafness ; 1801, letter to Amenda ; Letters to Wegeler ; Antaean resilience ; Relations with brothers ; Insults prince Lobkowitz ; 1802, Heiligenstadt testament ; Effects of deafness ; Frees creative music from
Contents composer-executant tradition ; And from taint of virtuosity ; Causes of deafness ; Nature of his disease -- The mortal beloveds. Beethoven's virility ; Puritanism of biographers ; Attitude toward women ; Rudeness to servant and Countess Guicciardi ; Magdalena Willmann ; Therese Malfatti ; The Brunswicks ; Bettina Brentano ; Beethoven as a lover ; Sublimation and compensation ; Handicaps ; His loss, our gain -- "A fresh start." 1803, sonatas, op. 31 ; A new style ; "Read Shakespeare's Tempest" ; April 5, 1803, a Beethoven program ; Concert conditions then and now ; First performance of C minor concerto ; A terrible rehearsal ; Second symphony ; The Beethovenian Scherzo ; Thematic interlocking of movements ; The triad, a source-motive as well as a germ-motive ; The mount of olives ; The Gellert songs ; "Kreutzer" sonata ; May, 1803, first performance by Bridgetower, a mulatto ; Dedicated to the unappreciative Kreutzer -- Beethovenism. What are classicism and romanticism? ; Beethoven simultaneously embodies both ; Political revolution and romanticism ; The young aesthetic radicals ; Formlessness as the law of form ; Creators and the golden mean ; Beethoven harmonizes extremes ; Breadth of his interests -- Prometheus brings fire. Napoleon and the Eroica, 1803 ; Absurd poetic programs of early critics ; Beethoven on Napoleon's death ; His possible attitude towards the Scherzo ; The germinal Prometheus tune ; Bekker on the Prometheus idea ; Momentousness of the Eroica ; One gigantic set of variations ; The hero theme a germ-motive ; Derived from the Prometheus tune ; Resemblances in Mozart ; Other thematic liaison work ; Interlocking of movements deliberate ; Novelty of the Eroica ; The epoch-making Beethovenian Scherzo ; Finale inadequate ; Sonata-form freed ; The episode ; Burning his bridge-passages ; Sonata-form fused ; The symphony unified ; Press unfavourable -- The practical joker. Beethoven carries on the torch of freedom ; Psychological insight ; Allows consecutive fifths ; "I may do it, but not you" ; Rooms with Von Breuning, May, 1804 ; Illness ; Quarrel ; Reconciliation ; Von Breuning's letter to Wegeler, September, 1804 ; Beethoven enjoys shocking the reactionaries ; A musician's practical jokes ; Baton technic ; Confuses the orchestra ; Baits an angry oboist ; Plays pranks on singers ; A poor sportsman ; The Andante Favori and his revenge on Ries ; The first quartet concerts, 1804 ; Beethoven's disconcerting behaviour -- Beethoven's "Tempest." 1804, "Waldstein" and "Appassionata" ; A well-known source-motive ; Schindler asks meaning of "Appassionata" ; "Read Shakespeare's Tempest" ; Did the critics read the play? ; Growing popularity ; Visit form a nameless beauty ; His music massacred ; Origin of the joy theme -- Fidelio: round peg, square hole. Search for a libretto ; Bouilly's Leonora, or Conjugal Love ; The plot ; First production, November, 1805 ; Failure ; Compressed to two acts ; Second production, 1806 ; Second revision ; Third production, 1814 ; His genius unoperatic ; Thoughts too deep for words ; Lack of sympathy for vocal music ; His "Crown of martyrdom" ; Fidelio involved a loss to music ; Beethoven an introvert ; The opera's high lights ; Chances for self-expression ; Fidelio's influence ; The overtures ; Leonore no. 3 too overpowering ; Beethoven liberates the overture ; And the opera composer ; Catastrophe and courage -- Quartets "for a later age". 1806, Beethoven rebounds from misfortune ; Finds self-defense and escape in composition ; Therapeutic music ; Sustained quality of works 1804-1809 ; A happy period ; 1806, Count Rasoumowsky commissions three string quartets ; 1808, founds Schuppanzigh organization ; Lobkowitz and Rasoumowsky quartets contrasted ; Chief characteristic of op. 59 ; F major quartet ; Liberates sonata-form ; A new kind of Scherzo ; E minor quartet ; B-A-C-H anagram ; "Hero" quartet ; Hostile reception ; Beethoven's confidence in his future -- Peace, power, and plenty. Violin concerto, 1806 ; Fondness for rhythmic mottos ; G major piano concerto, composed 1805-1807 ; Beethoven abolishes opening Tutti ; Frees the concerto orchestra ; Aids evolution of piano ; Alternation of mood in his works ; Fourth symphony, 1806 ; Echo from his popular minuet -- The princely rabble. Takes Archduke Rudolph as pupil, about 1805 ; Smashes a bust of Prince Lichnowsky, 1806 ; Applies for subsidy as opera composer ; Loyal support of Viennese nobility ; Coriolanus, 1807 ; Universalizes the descriptive overture ; Reconciled to Clementi, 1807 ; Count Gleichenstein replaces Zmeskall as factotum ; The brothers ; Mass in C major, finished September, 1807 ; Pioneer in the emancipation of church music ; Prince Esterhazy disappointed ; Fancied insult by Hummel --
Contents Who knocks at the door?. Fifth symphony, composed 1805-1807 ; Compared with Eroica ; The Per Aspera ad Astra pattern ; Questionable origin of "Fate knocks at the door" ; Duping Schindler ; Many possible interpretations of the C minor ; Beethoven and the sea ; Self-determination for listeners ; Music's emancipation from literature ; The music of the C minor ; Sketch books ; Borrowings from Mozart ; The symphony and the listener -- Fate fumbles at the box office. 1808, threatened loss of finger ; Honours Haydn ; Material sources of inspiration ; In Questa Tomba ; 1808, "Ghost" and E flat trios, op. 70 ; First and second period compared ; Were these trios begun as piano sonatas? ; Friendship with Countess Erdody ; A major violoncello sonata, 1808 ; "Inter Lachrymas et Luctum" ; Bombardment of Vienna ; G minor phantasie ; Improvisation on a second violin part ; Memorable Beethoven concert, December 22, 1808 ; Criticisms of fifth symphony's debut ; Meagre receipts ; Performance botched ; Choral Fantasia, op. 80 ; Beethoven humiliates the orchestra -- "The princely rabble" is princely. Growing obsession of persecution ; Vienna an appropriate home for Beethoven ; Offer from court of Cassel, before November 1, 1808 ; Annuity from Viennese nobility, February 26, 1809 ; Irregular payments and depreciation ; Ries in trouble ; F sharp major sonata, October, 1809 ; "Adieu, absence, and reunion" sonata, 1809-1810 ; "Emperor" concerto, 1809 ; "Harp" quartet, 1809 ; Beethoven repels the old, attracts the young -- What fiction does to music. The goriest battlefield in aesthetics ; Music and meaning ; A test of music's infinitude ; Caging the phoenix ; Fiction the popularizer ; Effects of music and poetry on one another ; Music the last art to discard fiction ; Story of program music ; The epoch-making Pastoral symphony, 1808 -- Program music and the Pastoral. Pastoral symphony published 1809 ; "More expression of feeling than tone-painting" ; Beethoven struggles against realism ; Love of nature ; Fondness for water ; And animals ; Making nature natural ; Heiligenstadt ; First movement ; Scene by the brook ; The bird joke ; Enter Mr. Hyde ; A daring harmonic effect ; Beethoven relishes bad music ; Makes friends with tavern orchestra ; Jovial origin and humour of "Peasants" Merry-Making? ; Beethoven's theory of program music summarized ; Overtures, his best program music ; All music is program music ; Literature: music: the conscious: the unconscious ; "My realm is in the air" -- The immoral, immortal Bettina. Extraordinary productiveness 1800-1810 ; Sterility 1810-1820 ; The climacteric theory ; Woos Therese Malfatti, 1810 ; Enter Bettina Brentano, May 1, 1810 ; She takes him to dinner ; First to express his true greatness ; Was she reliable? ; Her letter to Goethe, May 28, 1810 ; "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy" ; Effect of Goethe's poetry on Beethoven's creative faculty ; The essence of music ; "I had a raptus" ; Automatisms ; Goethe's reply ; Controversy about Beethoven's letters to Bettina ; He slights Bettina ; Heals her sister-in-law with the music cure -- Egmont, the Serioso and the "Archduke". Egmont, 1810 ; Growing fame ; Quartett Serioso, 1810 ; Celestial music ; "Archduke" trio, 1811 ; At Teplitz, 1811 ; A circle of poets ; Amalie Sebald -- Beethoven's Isolde. Letter to the "Immortal beloved" ; Controversies about her identity ; Various names championed ; Sonneck's list of requirements ; Was Beethoven in love with two women at once? ; An unsolved but unimportant mystery ; The role of love in Beethoven's life -- Drunk with genius. 1811, King Stephen ; The Ruins of Athens ; Beethoven overreaches the London philharmonic ; Seventh symphony, 1811-1812 ; Poetic programs ; Repudiated by composer ; The "Unproblematic" symphony ; Development of introduction and coda forms ; The music of the seventh ; Beethoven's first musical expression of boisterous humour ; His rough wit in daily life ; The seventh's illusion of vastness -- "When two strong men." Returns to Teplitz, 1812 ; Meets Goethe ; Insults imperial court ; Friction with Goethe ; Scolds him for not applauding ; Goethe resents Beethoven's power ; Charming letter to little family ; Largeness of outlook ; Priggishness in letters ; Inconsistency of his acts -- The humorous symphony. Meddles in brother's love affair ; Eighth symphony, 1812 ; "Sinfonia Giocosa" ; Plays fast and loose with the pedants ; A genial conjuror ; Allegretto inspires Rossini? ; It originates in canon to Maelzel ; Minuet ; Finale ; Variety in inter-movement unity -- Part II. The man who freed music. When Beethoven laughed. Humour in Beethoven's music ; Becomes a creative force ; Musical slaps on the back ; False-start passages ; Practical jokes on players ; Baulked expectations ; Musical puns ; Elfin fun ; Infectious verbal felicity ; Violoncello humour ; Pun habit ; "Ears on his feet" ; Fantastic threats ; Pun in C sharp minor ; Horse-play with the Abbe Stadler ; Laughs at himself ; Irony -- The Beethovenate symphony. "Corkscrew" sonata, finished 1812 ; Shows consideration for Rode ; 1813, a bad year ; Poverty ; Maelzel's panharmonicon ; Battle pieces in fashion ; The "Battle" symphony ; First performance, December 8, 1813 ; Celebrities in the orchestra ; Popular success ; Defrauds Maelzel ; Repents of his folly ; His forward-looking mind ; Interest in invention: fountain pens, aviation, steam cannons, steamboats, lifts ; The Glorious Moment ; Polonaise, op. 89 ; E minor piano sonata, op. 90 ; Its program ; Last revision of Fidelio, 1814 ; The germ-motive ; The source-motive ; Marginalia ; "The mad muisician" ; "Man, help thyself!" -- "As good as lost". Last public appearance as pianist, 1814 ; Growing avarice ; Kindness to brother ; Karl dies, November 16, 1815 ; Beethoven joint guardian of nephew ; Litigation with sister-in-law ; Fervid love for nephew ; The "van" in his name ; A purely musical witticism ; Receives freedom of city, about December 1, 1815 ; Violoncello sonatas, C major and D major, 1815 ; Tentative beginning of third period ; Its characteristics ; A major sonata, op. 101 ; Song cycle, To the Distant Beloved, 1816 ; A milestone in musical history ; Marginalia, 1816-1817 ; Fish suppers at Nussdorf ; His favourite symphony ; Despair ; Offer from London philharmonic ; Hammerklavier sonata, 1818-1819 -- The emancipator emancipated. Present from Broadwood, 1818 ; Progress of deafness ; Suspicion and violence ; A musical bootjack ; The conversation books ; Irregular habits and exposure ; Failing health, 1818-1823 ; "A hearty, free word" ; Helplessness ; Creative freedom ; Inertia in starting ; New compositions ; 1820, E major sonata, op. 109 ; 1821, A flat sonata, op. 110 ; A memory sonata ; Simultaneous echoes of Haydn, Mozart, and Bach ; Souvenir of the Eroica ; Fugue-finale ; "Imagination claims its rights" ; 1822, C minor sonata, op. 111 ; Its difficulties for the listener ; Beethoven arrested as a vagabond, 1820 ; Present intelligence of Vienna police ; Beethoven's concentration ; Sir John Russell's description of him, 1821 ; Tricked into improvising ; Rossini calls, 1822 ; Fidelio revived, 1822 ; Beethoven fails as conductor ; The real tragedy of his deafness -- He frees the mass. Mass in D, begun 1818 ; Intended for Rudolph's enthronization ceremony, 1820 ; But not finished until 1823 ; An unecclesiastical and unvocal writer ; His personal creed ; His detachment from earth, 1819 ; Missa begun as an occasional work ; Music with a purpose ; Handicaps to composition ; Comparative failure of Kyrie, Gloria, and part of Sanctus ; Power and beauty of Credo, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei ; A barefaced plagiarism ; Hints of military music ; The finest melody in the Missa ; Evaluation as a whole ; Defensive rationalization ; Beethoven frees the mass -- Mr. Hyde and the hell-hounds. Bad faith with publishers ; Palliations ; Did Beethoven have a higher private moral code? ; Weak case for the defense ; Solicits private subscriptions for Missa ; Misrepresentations to Zelter ; Letter to Goethe, February 8, 1823, unanswered ; Schindler established as factotum, 1822 ; Liszt's debut, 1823 ; Diabelli variations, 1823 -- The Choral symphony. Choral symphony, begun before 1817, finished 1823 ; Long incubation period ; 1818, memorandum for ninth and tenth symphonies ; Fusion of the two schemes ; Echoes ; Initial difficulty in composing ; The program question ; Beethoven's three most original contributions ; First movement ; Scherzo ; The kettledrum joke ; Origin of first subject ; Adagio-Andante ; Choral finale ; Skill in selecting words ; Merits and defects of Hymn to Joy -- He embraces the amateurs. February, 1824, an address to Beethoven ; His indecision ; Conspiracy of friends ; Announcement of concert ; Rehearsal ; Concert May 7, 1824 ; Deaf to applause ; A financial failure ; Accuses supper guests of dishonesty ; Breaks faith with London philharmonic ; Word portrait by Rochlitz --
Contents "La Gaiete". 1824, first Galitzin quartet, E flat ; Its emotional unity ; Suggestion of the Pathetique ; And of the Missa ; Inspires Schumann and Brahms ; An impish passage ; First performance, 1825 ; Two shabby tricks ; Failure of Schuppanzigh ; Replaced by Boehm ; Holz supplants Schindler ; Domestic troubles ; Furious letter to copyist Wolanek ; Minerva and the sow ; Beethoven not to be judged by ordinary standards -- The A minor quartet. Illness ; 1825, second Galitzin quartet, A minor ; Mottos of slow movement ; Programs ; Echo of Arioso Dolente ; Defect of first movement ; Economy in Allegro ma non Tanto ; Harmonic syncopation ; High lights -- Less lack of fancy. 1825, word portrait by Rellstab ; Beethoven complains of neglect ; Relations with nephew ; Loneliness ; Premonitions of death ; Karl runs away ; 1825, third Galitzin quartet, B flat ; "Quartetto Scherzoso" ; Beethoven's "Leibquartett" ; Cavatina cost him tears ; Modesty ; Contrapuntal miracles in first movement ; Influences Wagner ; Fairy music in Andante con moto ; The great fugue ; Writes a new Finale -- "Spangy" in the black Spaniard's house. 1825, moves to black Spaniard's house ; Renews intimacy with Von Breunings ; "Trouser button" ; Relics ; Frau von Breuning ; An embarrassing escort ; Unconsciousness of discord -- The master's masterpiece. C sharp minor quartet completed, 1826 ; Its preeminence ; Sketches ; "Cribbed," yet "Spanking new" ; The author's own reaction ; "Twenty minutes of reality" ; From heaven to earth ; The opening fugue ; "Consciousness surpassing our own" ; An expressionistic Allegretto ; A mighty compensation -- The "Madman" at Gneixendorf. Karl goes from bad to worse ; Lays hands on his uncle ; Attempts suicide ; Decides to be a soldier ; Beethoven takes him to Gneixendorf, September, 1826 ; A trying guest ; Homely brother Johann ; Beethoven's habits of composition too much for cook ; The vine-dresser valet's account ; What the natives thought of him ; "A Bissel Stada!" ; Friction -- Retrospect in F major. October 30, 1826, last quartet finished ; Reason for its brevity ; The Merchant of Venice ; Op. 135, a retrospect ; "The Midway" forecast ; Origin of "Muss es sein?" ; The housekeeper theory ; Dembscher and the canon -- The divine comedy is finished. Return to Vienna, December 2, 1826 ; Last illness ; Brave wit during operation ; Sick-room conditions ; Enjoys gift of Handel's works ; Confident of posterity's verdict ; Tries to learn arithmetic ; Representations of poverty ; Gift of 100 [pounds] from philharmonic, February 28, 1827 ; Was it obtained under false pretenses? ; Rationalization ; "A stormy flood" ; Karl leaves Vienna ; Mental confusion ; Schubert's visit ; Last handwriting, March 23 ; "Applaud, friends" ; Last words, March 24 ; Delirium ; Death, March 26, 1827 ; Cause of death ; Finding the secret drawer ; Philharmonic's handsome action ; Burial, March 29 ; Reburial, 1872 ; Tomb -- How Beethoven freed music. A versatile emancipator ; Established composer on professional basis ; Democratized and universalized music ; No disparagement of Bach implied ; Cultivated nuance ; Developed the continental concert ; Matured the art ; Freed form ; Helped to liberate harmony ; Created new technic for keyboard instruments ; Emancipated modulation ; Took music out-of-doors ; Freed it from cloistered outlook ; The Luther of church music ; And of the dramatic overture ; Rid music of exhibitionism ; Fought venality ; Developed mechanism of piano ; And of orchestra ; Dissolved time-honoured identity of composer and interpreter ; Made music more self-contained ; Encouraged rise of creative listening ; Beethoven the chief of many liberators -- What Beethoven means to us. A supreme master of construction ; Novel architectonic method ; Made forms "Internal" ; Developed them ; Closely knit structures ; Lengthened sonata and symphony ; Multiplied movements ; The germ-motive ; The source-motive ; Modified the rondo ; And the fugue ; Three greatest contributions ; The titanic Allegro ; The Scherzo ; The mystical Adagio ; Treatment of variation form ; Originality ; Dramatic power ; Unexpectedness ; Lavish vitality ; Economy ; Concentration ; Large calibre ; The Beethoven religion ; Beethoven as physician ; Conscientious idealism ; Trough and crest ; Fluctuations of fashion -- Part III. Beethoven's workshop. The borrowing alchemist. Prospecting adventures in Beethoven ; True value of such researches ; Beauty in the making ; Plagiarism vs. genial appropriation ; Choice of subject matter for Part II ; Beethoven borrows from Haydn ; And Mozart ; From himself ; Foreign folk tunes ; From himself ; The rust imposture ; Mozart fathers the joy tune ; Echoes in the last quartets -- Beethoven invents the germ-motive. Germ-motive vs. source-motive ; New meaning of the word "Idea" ; Beethoven feels his way ; A consciously used device ; Treatment of germ-motive in Part I ; Progenitor of Leitmotif ; Early experimentation ; First elaborate use in Pathetique ; C minor quartet ; Violin sonatas A minor and F major ; Second symphony ; "Kreutzer" sonata ; Eroica ; "Appassionata" ; C minor symphony ; Serioso quartet ; B flat trio ; Eighth symphony ; A masterpiece of camouflage ; Beethoven describes his own creative processes ; Initial germ-motive in last sonatas ; Choral symphony ; Last quartets -- Some source-motives. Source-motives in part I ; Thrift and resource ; "Certain musical pets" ; Pathetique source-motive ; Its modern uses ; Four quarters and a dotted half ; A motive from op. 14, no. 2 ; Joy source-motive ; Great fugue motive ; Adelaide motive ; Triad habit -- A chief source-motive of Beethoven. Economy of material ; Variety in unity ; Originality and uniqueness not claimed for motive ; Fertility of creative resources ; Relative frequency of motive in his symphonies, sonatas, etc. ; Was its use conscious? ; Devices for concealment ; The formula stated ; Traced through entire life work ; Its protean nature ; Conscious employment ; Beethoven as an improvisator ; Improvises on this motive ; Inter-resemblance of certain uses ; Newman's three notes ; His theory of Beethoven's unconsciousness ; Employment of source-motive by other composers ; Objects of this chapter ; The anagram idea ; Implications -- Appendix. How to know Beethoven through automatic instruments ; Glossary; some technical terms every music lover should know.
General noteIn abridged form part one of this book has appeared serially in 'The Outlook and Independent'.
General note"A list of Beethoven's printed works": pages 642-660.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 636-641) and index.

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