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THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: VOLUME 2
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| By: |
Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108064744 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108064743 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
23 March, 2013 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Music |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
The 1921 three-volume English edition of a landmark biography of one of the world's greatest composers. |
| Synopsis: |
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 2 covers the period 1803-18, including the custody wrangles over Beethoven's nephew. |
| Illustrations: |
1 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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