Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (Version 2)
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
1921
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He came to Vienna at twenty two carrying a note that promised he would receive Mozart's spirit from Haydn's hands. Working from documents rather than legend, Thayer rebuilds the Bonn boyhood, the court that trained him, the city that adopted him, and the first years of a pianist who frightened his rivals, before the deafness arrived and turned him into something else entirely.
29 chapters
- 1Introduction36m
- 2Chapter 1 Pt. 1 Fall of the Ecclesiastical-Civil States in Germany28m
- 3Chapter 1 Pt. 2 The Electors of Cologne in the Eighteenth Century26m
- 4Chapter 1 Pt. 3 The Electoral Courts and Their Music30m
- 5Chapter 1 Pt. 4 Earliest Records of the Beethovens29m
- 6Chapter 1 Pt. 5 Musical Culture in Bonn at the Time of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Birth30m
- 7Chapter 2 Beethoven’s Ancestors in Belgium32m
- 8Chapter 3 Birth of Ludwig van Beethoven41m
- 9Chapter 4 Early Employment of His Talent and Skill27m
- 10Chapter 5 Musical Culture in the Austrian Imperial Family25m
- 11Chapter 6 A Period of Artistic Inactivity in Bonn35m
- 12Chapter 7 Beethoven Brought Under Refining Influences20m
- 13Chapter 8 Beethoven’s Associates in the Court Orchestra16m
- 14Chapter 9 The Last Three Years of Beethoven’s Life in Bonn48m
- 15Chapter 10 Beethoven’s Creative Activity in Bonn47m
- 16Chapter 11 Beethoven in Vienna50m
- 17Chapter 12 Music in Vienna at the Time of Beethoven’s Arrival There34m
- 18Chapter 13 Beethoven in Society51m
- 19Chapter 14 The Years 1796 and 17971h 11m
- 20Chapter 15 Compositions of 1798 and 179954m
- 21Chapter 16 Beethoven’s Social Life in Vienna48m
- 22Chapter 17 Beethoven’s Character and Personality59m
- 23Chapter 18 His First Concert on His Own Account46m
- 24Chapter 19 The Year 180148m
- 25Chapter 20 Important Letters of 18011h 4m
- 26Chapter 21 Beethoven’s Love-Affairs59m
- 27Chapter 21 Postscript36m
- 28Chapter 22 Pt. 1 The Year 180235m
- 29Chapter 22 Pt. 2 A Defence of Brothers Johann and Karl Kaspar34m
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