Beethoven as I knew him : a biography / edited by Donald W. MacArdle and translated [from the German] by Constance S. Jolly.
| Author/creator | Schindler, Anton |
| Other author | MacArdle, Donald W., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | London : Faber, 1966. |
| Description | 547 pages : illustrations, portraits, plates, music, facsimiles ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. English |
| Contents | First period (Beethoven's birth (1770) to the end of 1800). Early life ; Early years in Vienna -- Appendices to the first period. The situation of music in Vienna at the close of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries ; Introduction to the catalogue of works ; Catalogue of works published between 1795 and the end of 1800 ; Music criticism and the reception of Beethoven's works -- Second period (1801 to the end of 1814). 1801-04 ; 1804-05 ; 1806-08 ; 1809-13 ; 1813-14 -- Appendices to the second period. The catalogue ; List of works ; Beethoven's musical character ; Criticisms of difficulty and incomprehensibility -- Third period (1815 to Beethoven's death (1827)). 1815-20 ; 1821-22 ; 1823 ; 1824-26 ; 1825-27 -- Appendices to the third period. From the autopsy report ; Wills and financial situation ; A letter from Stephan von Breuning the death-mask by Danhauser ; Catalogue of works composed in the period ; 'The difficult decision' -- Personality, individual characteristics, anecdotes, etc. Religion; thoroughbass; aesthetics ; Contemporaries; the master and young musicians ; Beethoven's memory ; Beethoven's private library ; Wanderlust ; A juvenile trick ; Certificate of survival ; Contrast between the brothers ; The twilight hour ; Beethoven's daily routine ; Moments of deep meditation ; Food and drink ; An expression of thanks; of Beethoven and Hummel -- Musical section -- Supplements. Beethoven's portraits ; Beethoven and his last physician, Dr. Wawruch ; Beethoven and Prince Nicolai Borissovitch Galitsin ; "Beethoven's studies in thoroughbass, counterpoint, and composition"; or, Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried and Tobias Haslinger ; Beethoven and Karl Holz ; Carl Maria von Weber as a critic of Beethoven ; Two measures in the scherzo of the C minor symphony that are the subject of controversy and continuing disagreement ; Papers with reference to the legal controversy with the mechanic Maelzel ; Three letters from Beethoven to Bettina ; Draft of a letter to Cherubini (1823) ; The theme of finale of the quartet in C sharp minor, opus 131 ; The Sonate Pathetique ; The introduction of Beethoven's music in Paris ; A review of Beethoven's private library and the public auction of his musical Nachlass in November 1827 ; Existing personal effects of Beethoven -- Review of Beethoven works in the "Allgemeine musikalische zeitung". |
| Abstract | For most of the last ten years of Beethoven's life, the author was closely associated with the composer as pupil, secretary, servant, and factotum. This relationship gave him an incomparable vantage point for writing a personalized, detailed biography of the great man. In 1840 Schindler published the first, hastily written version of the biography, which was translated into English the following year by Ignaz Moscheles, the eminent pianist and Beethoven disciple. It was not until 1860, however, that Schindler published a carefully written, thoroughly revised edition, containing a great deal of new material. It is this third edition that is reprinted here in an English translation by Constance S. Jolly. Extensively annotated by Beethoven scholar Donald W. MacArdle, this edition of the biography offers not only Schindler's intimate view of the composer his music, how he was viewed by his contemporaries, his personality, deafness and irascible behavior, and other aspects of his daily life but incorporates 100 years of subsequent Beethoven research. The result is an indispensable source of information about one of history's greatest musical geniuses a standard reference work as appealing to the general music lover as it is essential to the Beethoven scholar. |
| General note | Originally published as 'Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven.' Münster, Aschendorff, 1860. |
| General note | "List of abbreviations" (bibliographical) pages 15-18. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 66073373 |
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