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520 a| When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827, the world of music felt an intense loss. The composer's funeral procession was one of the largest Vienna had ever witnessed, and the poet Franz Grillparzer's eulogy brought the tensions between the composer's life and music into sharp focus: the deaf and aloof genius, the alienated and eccentric artist, unable to form a lasting relationship with a woman but reaching out to mankind. These apparent contradictions were to attract many Beethoven biographers yet to come. Here, the author, himself a much-lauded Beethoven biographer, tells the story of Beethoven biography, from the earliest attempts made directly after the composer's death to the present day. This book casts a wide net, tracing the story of Beethoven biography from Anton Schindler as biographer and falsifier, through the authoritative Alexander Wheelock Thayer and down to the present. The list includes Gustav Nottebohm, the first scholar to study Beethoven's sketchbooks. With his work, biography could begin to reflect on the inner life of the artist as expressed in his music, and in this sense, sketchbooks could be seen as artistic diaries. Even Richard Wagner thought of writing a Beethoven biography, and the late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the emergence of French and English traditions of Beethoven biography. In the tumultuous twentieth century, with world wars and fractured politics, the writing of Beethoven biography was sometimes caught up in the storm. By bringing the story down to our time, the author identifies traditions of Beethoven biography that today's scholars and writers need to be aware of. As Lockwood shows, each biography reflects not only on the individual writer's knowledge and interests, but also his inner sense of purpose as each writer works within the intellectual framework of his time.;

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Beethoven's lives : the biographical tradition / Lewis Lockwood.

Author/creator	Lockwood, Lewis author.
Format	Book
Publication	Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, 2020.
Copyright Date	©2020
Description	xxii, 209 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Subjects	Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Composers--Germany. --Biography.

Contents	The earliest biographers. Grillparzer's funeral oration, 1827 ; Contemporary observers ; Early attempts and rivalries ; Wegeler and Ries, 1838 -- Beethoven biography, 1840-c. 1875. The emergence of Beethoven biography ; Anton Schindler as biographer and falsifier, 1840-60 ; Alexander Wheelock Thayer and the pursuit of truth: his earlier work, 1849-66 ; Lenz, Marx, and Nohl ; Nottebohm on the composer at work ; Richard Wagner and G. E. Anders: a projected Beethoven biography (1841) -- The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The newly enlarged context for Beethoven biography ; Beethoven biographies and related works, c. 1870-1927 ; Thayer's later contributions, 1867-97 ; German biographers, c. 1870-1935 ; The French tradition: Romain Rolland, Vincent d'Indy, others ; The English tradition: George Grove, Donald Francis Tovey, Marion Scott, J. W. N. Sullivan -- Beethoven biography and European politics, 1933-77. German Beethoven scholarship in the Nazi period (1933-45) ; East Germany and West Germany, 1945-77 ; Austrian Beethoven conferences, 1970 and 1977 ; Bonn, Berlin, and Detroit, 1970 and 1977 -- The modern era. The bicentenary year 1970: two contrasting biographies ; Maynard Solomon, 1977 and 1998 ; Kerman, Tyson, and Kropfinger, 1980 and 2000 ; Recent biographies ; Other recent biographies -- Exploring Beethoven's life and work: three sample years. 1787: the young Beethoven's journey to Vienna ; 1809: War, the Archduke Rudolph ; 1826: the final phase, the late quartets, Karl's attempted suicide, the last months -- Reminiscences and reflections. Future prospects.
Abstract	When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827, the world of music felt an intense loss. The composer's funeral procession was one of the largest Vienna had ever witnessed, and the poet Franz Grillparzer's eulogy brought the tensions between the composer's life and music into sharp focus: the deaf and aloof genius, the alienated and eccentric artist, unable to form a lasting relationship with a woman but reaching out to mankind. These apparent contradictions were to attract many Beethoven biographers yet to come. Here, the author, himself a much-lauded Beethoven biographer, tells the story of Beethoven biography, from the earliest attempts made directly after the composer's death to the present day. This book casts a wide net, tracing the story of Beethoven biography from Anton Schindler as biographer and falsifier, through the authoritative Alexander Wheelock Thayer and down to the present. The list includes Gustav Nottebohm, the first scholar to study Beethoven's sketchbooks. With his work, biography could begin to reflect on the inner life of the artist as expressed in his music, and in this sense, sketchbooks could be seen as artistic diaries. Even Richard Wagner thought of writing a Beethoven biography, and the late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw the emergence of French and English traditions of Beethoven biography. In the tumultuous twentieth century, with world wars and fractured politics, the writing of Beethoven biography was sometimes caught up in the storm. By bringing the story down to our time, the author identifies traditions of Beethoven biography that today's scholars and writers need to be aware of. As Lockwood shows, each biography reflects not only on the individual writer's knowledge and interests, but also his inner sense of purpose as each writer works within the intellectual framework of his time.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN	9781783275519 hardcover
ISBN	1783275510 hardcover

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