The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven
Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 416
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Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 416
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1108064744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1921 three-volume English edition of a landmark biography of one of the world's greatest composers.
Author: Jonah Winter
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Published: 2014-04-30
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13: 0307554007
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow hard is it to move 5 legless pianos 39 times? Beethoven owned five legless pianos and composed great works on the floor. His first apartment was in the center of Vienna's theater district... but he forgot to pay rent, so he had to move. (And it's very hard to move a piano. Even harder to move five). Beethoven's next apartment was in a dangerous part of town... so he moved, and the pianos followed on a series of pulleys. Then came an apartment with a view of the Danube (but he made too much noise and the neighbors complained), followed by an attic apartment (where he made even MORE of a rukus), and so Beethoven moved again and again. Each time, pianos were bought, left behind, transported on pulleys, slides, and by movers, all so that gifted Beethoven could compose great works of music for the world.
Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
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Published: 1991
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Wyn Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-19
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780521568784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges.
Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1992-04-12
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9780691027173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.
Author: Jessica Duchen
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
Published: 2020-10-29
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1789651166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
Author: Anton Schindler
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Published: 1841
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laura Tunbridge
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2020-07-16
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0241987458
DOWNLOAD EBOOK**WINNER of Presto Books' Best Composer Biography** NINE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN, NINE WINDOWS INTO THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF A MUSICAL GENIUS. 'We are doubly blessed that Beethoven should have led such an extraordinary life. Laura has combined the two - the genius of his music and the richness of his experiences - to shine a revealing light on our greatest composer' John Humphrys _________________________ Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths. In Beethoven, Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge cuts through the noise. With each chapter focusing on a period of his life, piece of music and revealing theme - from family to friends, from heroism to liberty - she provides a rich insight into the man and the music. Revealing a wealth of never-before-seen material, this tour de force is a compelling, accessible portrayal of one of the world's most creative minds and it will transform how you listen for ever. _________________________ 'Tunbridge has come up with the seemingly impossible: a new way of approaching Beethoven's life and music . . . profoundly original and hugely readable' John Suchet, author Beethoven: The Man Revealed 'This well researched and accessible book is a must read for all who seek to know more about the flesh and blood tangible Beethoven.' John Clubbe, author of Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary 'This book is really wonderful! ... However many books on Beethoven you own, find the space for one more. This one' Stephen Hough, pianist, composer, writer 'In a year when everyone's looking for a new take on Beethoven, Laura Tunbridge has found nine. Fresh and engaging' Norman Lebrecht, author of Genius and Anxiety 'Remarkable . . . she captures the essence of his genius and character. I'll always want to keep it in easy reach' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the third Reich