The Life of Beethoven
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 05 June 2015
- 06 November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781139923323
- 9781108077422
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- Dimensions:
- (216 x 140 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.42kg, 332 Pages
- Subjects:
- Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
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- Music, Music: General Interest, Nineteenth-Century Music
Volume 1
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Book description
Violinist and conductor Anton Schindler (1795–1864) became Beethoven's unpaid private secretary for two periods in the 1820s, notably caring for the composer in his last months. Schindler published his biography of Beethoven in 1840, and in 1841 this English translation appeared, with a preface and additional letters provided by the pianist Ignaz Moscheles (1794–1870), who in 1814 had prepared the piano version of Fidelio for publication by Artaria. That the biography is unreliable has long been recognised, as it presents Schindler's idealised, romantic view of Beethoven, whom he revered, and contains inaccuracies and fabrications uncovered by later research. While the work must therefore be approached with care, it remains nonetheless an important source of first-hand information through its use of documents unavailable to other early biographers. Volume 1 covers Beethoven's life to the completion of the Ninth Symphony in 1824.
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