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Thayer's life of Beethoven, Vol. 1
Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Elliot Forbes, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann and Henry Edward Krehbiel
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Frontmatter
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Preface (page v)
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Chapter 1. The Electoral Court at Bonn (page 3)
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Chapter 2. The Beethoven Family (page 41)
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Chapter 3. Beethoven's Birth and Childhood, 1770-1784 (page 53)
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Chapter 4. Elector Max Franz and his Court - The Von Breuning Family - The Years 1784 to 1786 (page 73)
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Chapter 5. The Years 1787 to 1788 - The Operatic Seasons from 1789 to 1792 (page 86)
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Chapter 6. The Years 1789 to 1792 - The Move to Vienna (page 100)
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Chapter 7. The Compositions Written at Bonn, 1786-1792 (page 118)
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Chapter 8. Beethoven's Teachers in Vienna - Viennese Composers and Society (page 134)
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Chapter 9. The Years 1793 to 1795 (page 160)
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Chapter 10. The Years 1796 and 1797 (page 180)
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Chapter 11. The Years 1798 and 1799 (page 203)
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Chapter 12. Beethoven's Friends and Fellow Musicians - The Brunsvik Family - Character Traits - Sketch-books - Possible Origin of Deafness (page 219)
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Chapter 13. The Year 1800 (page 254)
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Chapter 14. The Year 1801. Correspondence with Publishers - Early Criticisms of Beethoven's Music - Letters to Amenda and Wegeler Concerning Deafness - Ferdinand Ries (page 268)
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Chapter 15. The Year 1802. The Heiligenstadt Testament - Beethoven's Brothers - Correspondence with Publishers (page 300)
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Chapter 16. The Year 1803. The Court Theatre - Work on the "Eroica" Symphony (page 324)
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Chapter 17. The Year 1804. Beginning of Work on "Leonore" - The "Eroica" Privately Performed - Beethoven and Breuning - Friendship with Countess Deym (page 344)
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Chapter 18. The Year 1805. Public Performance of the "Eroica" - Countess Josephine Deym - "Leonore" Completed and Performed (page 363)
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Chapter 19. The Year 1806. The Revision of "Leonore" - The Razumovsky Quartets - The Fourth Symphony (page 393)
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Chapter 20. The Year 1807. Work on the Fifth Symphony - The Mass in C (page 412)
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Chapter 21. The Year 1808. Completion of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies - The Concert of December 22nd (page 430)
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Chapter 22. The Year 1809. The Annuity Contract - The Siege of Vienna - Piano Concerto No. 5 (page 453)
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Chapter 23. The Year 1810. Decrease in Productivity - Therese Malfatti - Bettina Brentano (page 480)
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Chapter 24. The Year 1811. Bettina, Beethoven and Goethe - A Sojourn in Teplitz - Sketches for New Symphonies (page 504)
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Chapter 25. The Year 1812. The Austrian Finanz-Patent - Second Sojourn at Teplitz - Letters to the Immortal Beloved (page 522)
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Chapter 26. The Year 1813. Financial Difficulties - Suspension of Payments - Concerts at Graz - Mälzel and "Wellington's Victory" - Concerts of December 8 and 12 (page 549)
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Chapter 27. The Year 1814. Quarrel with Mälzel - The Revision of "Fidelio" - The Vienna Congress (page 569)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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TMP | 73 (Summer 1965): 29-30 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/942864 |
MAL | 46.1 (Jan. 1965): 80-81 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/731940 |
JAMS | 19.1 (Spring 1966): 104-108 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/830881 |
NOT | 21.4 (Autumn 1964): 541-542 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/894550 |
JRME | 12.4 (Winter 1964): 309-310 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3343724 |
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Published: 1967
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691027173 (paper)
- 9781400843398 (ebook)