Exploring Beethoven: Ten Fascinating Books
Biographies, Criticism, and Reminiscences on Genius, Deafness, and Revolutionary MusicBy Thomas Tapper, Alexander Teetgen, May Byron, George Alexander Fischer, Anton Schindler, Elliott Graeme, Ludwig van Beethoven, Romain Rolland, Franz Hoffmann, Pitts Sanborn
Length46h 11m
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Exploring Beethoven: Ten Fascinating Books gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early twentieth-century conversation around one of Western music's most compelling figures. Biographical narrative, recollection, critical essay, pedagogical commentary, and Beethoven's own voice meet here to illuminate the composer as artist, public symbol, and enduring cultural problem. The volume's range is its chief distinction: intimate anecdotes and documentary impulses stand beside expansive interpretations of genius, while accounts of the symphonies, sonatas, and heroic mythology of Beethoven reveal changing ideals of music and modernity. Its contributors represent several generations of Beethoven reception. Musicians, critics, translators, popular writers, and biographers approach the composer through differing national and intellectual traditions, from Romantic reverence and Victorian moral biography to more modern psychological and aesthetic criticism. The inclusion of material associated with Beethoven himself complicates the later portraits, inviting readers to compare self-expression, memory, and canon-making. Together, these voices trace how Beethoven became central to concert culture, music education, and debates about artistic individuality. Recommended for students of music history, literary culture, and biography, this anthology offers an unusually rich single-volume encounter with Beethoven's afterlives. Readers will find both accessible entry points and revealing tensions among its sources, making the collection valuable not only for what it says about the composer, but also for the dialogue it stages about genius, evidence, and interpretation.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length46 hrs 11 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Life of Beethoven
2T H E L I F E OF B E E T H O V E N,
3LIFE OF BEETHOVEN.
4THIRD PERIOD. FROM NOVEMBER, 1813, TILL HIS DEATH, IN 1827. PART I.
5THIRD PERIOD. TILL HIS DEATH IN 1827. PART II.
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6T H E L I F E OF B E E T H O V E N,
7MUSICAL OBSERVATIONS.[109]
8II. CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS AND PECULIARITIES OF BEETHOVEN.
9SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME II. (pt. 1)
10SUPPLEMENT TO VOLUME II. (pt. 2)
11SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE OF ALL THE ORIGINAL WORKS BY LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN, AS PUBLISHED BY T. HASLINGER, FROM VIENNA.
12Beethoven: A Memoir
13Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.)
14PREFACE
15PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
16BEETHOVEN:
17CHAPTER I
18CHAPTER II
19CHAPTER III
20CHAPTER IV
21CHAPTER V
22CHAPTER VI
23CHAPTER VII
24CHAPTER VIII
25THE PIANOFORTE SONATAS [33]
26A NOVEL WITH TWO HEROES
27Beethoven
28Beethoven
29PREFACE
30INTRODUCTION
31HIS LIFE
32HIS WILL
33THE HEILIGENSTADT WILL.[83]
34LETTERS
35BEETHOVEN'S LETTERS.[85]
36THOUGHTS
37THE NINE SYMPHONIES
38THE PIANOFORTE SONATAS
39THE SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND PIANOFORTE
40THE STRING QUARTETS
41BEETHOVEN'S PORTRAITS.
42CLASSIFICATION OF BEETHOVEN'S PIANOFORTE SONATAS. IN ORDER OF STUDY
43LIST OF BEETHOVEN'S WORKS.
44Beethoven, a character study
45BEETHOVEN
46CHAPTER I
47CHAPTER II
48CHAPTER III
49CHAPTER IV
50CHAPTER V
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