Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II
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Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II

  1. 552 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II

About this book

Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven. has long been recognized as the classic biography of Beethoven. "Thayer, with his calm and logical mind, scrupulous, magnanimous and spacious...had set out to describe for posterity the great man as he was and lived...and his patient realism and all but inexhaustible industry had created an irreplaceable and masterly portrait." So Van Wyck Brooks described this monumental work of the 1880's.

Thayer talked with Beethoven's surviving friends, gathered anecdotes, and sifted hundreds of documents. The resulting wealth of detail stimulated other students, and a mass of Beethoven scholarship appeared. Now Elliot Forbes, one of the foremost Beethoven scholars of our time, has used this new material to bring the Life up to elate without sacrificing Thayer's text.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. List of Abbreviations
  6. Contents
  7. Chapter 28. The Year 1815
  8. Chapter 29. The Year 1816
  9. Chapter 30. The Year 1817
  10. Chapter 31. The Year 1818
  11. Chapter 32. The Year 1819
  12. Chapter 33. The Year 1820
  13. Chapter 34. The Year 1821
  14. Chapter 35. The Year 1822
  15. Chapter 36. The Year 1823
  16. Chapter 37. The Year 1824
  17. Chapter 38. The Year 1825
  18. Chapter 39. The Year 1826
  19. Chapter 40. December, 1826-1827
  20. Appendix- A
  21. Appendix- B
  22. Appendix- C
  23. Appendix- D
  24. Appendix- E
  25. Appendix- F
  26. Appendix- G
  27. Appendix- H
  28. Appendix- I
  29. Index