Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 350 pages)
ISBN:
9781107300095
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Music
Uniform Title:
Ludwig van Beethovens Leben
Content:
This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet it remained unfinished at his death. His friend Hermann Deiters (1833–1907) edited and translated Thayer's work into German, publishing three volumes which covered Beethoven's life to 1816. Since Deiters also died before the biography could be completed, musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) was called upon to conclude the work. The final German volumes appeared in 1907 and 1908. It was the American critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854–1923) who prepared the present work, the first and considerably revised English version, published in three volumes in 1921. Volume 3 covers Beethoven's final years, his ninth symphony and late quartets
Note:
Includes indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108064750
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108064750
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107300095
Author information:
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock 1817-1897
