Volume two of the landmark biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven has long been regarded as the classic biography of Beethoven. To gather the necessary materials, he went to Europe; there, he spent most of his life seeking out those persons still alive who had known Beethoven and studying the sources that were available. His biography succeeded in clearing away the romantic fiction that was then, in the 1870s, current and gave for the first time a full account of the composer’s life that was based on reliable, historical, method.

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Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II
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Music History & CriticismTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Abbreviations
- Contents
- Chapter 28. The Year 1815
- Chapter 29. The Year 1816
- Chapter 30. The Year 1817
- Chapter 31. The Year 1818
- Chapter 32. The Year 1819
- Chapter 33. The Year 1820
- Chapter 34. The Year 1821
- Chapter 35. The Year 1822
- Chapter 36. The Year 1823
- Chapter 37. The Year 1824
- Chapter 38. The Year 1825
- Chapter 39. The Year 1826
- Chapter 40. December, 1826-1827
- Appendix- A
- Appendix- B
- Appendix- C
- Appendix- D
- Appendix- E
- Appendix- F
- Appendix- G
- Appendix- H
- Appendix- I
- Index
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