Full Description
This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817-97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet it remained unfinished at his death. His friend Hermann Deiters (1833-1907) edited and translated Thayer's work into German, publishing three volumes which covered Beethoven's life to 1816. Since Deiters also died before the biography could be completed, musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) was called upon to conclude the work. The final German volumes appeared in 1907 and 1908. It was the American critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854-1923) who prepared the present work, the first and considerably revised English version, published in three volumes in 1921. Volume 2 covers the period 1803-18, including the custody wrangles over Beethoven's nephew.
Contents
1. The year 1803; 2. The year 1804; 3. The year 1805; 4. The year 1806; 5. Beethoven's friends and patrons; 6. Princes and counts as theatrical directors; 7. The year 1808; 8. Jerome Bonaparte's invitation; 9. The years 1807-9; 10. The year 1810; 11. The year 1811; 12. The year 1812; 13. The year 1813; 14. The year 1814; 15. The year 1815; 16. The year 1816; 17. The year 1817; 18. The year 1818.
