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Books in the Master Musicians series have customarily been divided into two main parts-life and work
Most of Beethoven's regular occupation consisted of sketching and drafting his compositions, and lar
An integrated approach to Beethoven's life and works also allows works to be seen in their immediate
The published sources available as the basis for an overall account of Beethoven are today innumerab
The main outlines of Beethoven's life have been known ever since they were painstakingly assembled o
Several other writers cited by Thayer, such as Friedrich Rochlitz, Johann Schenk, and Louis Schlosse
translations have not been strictly retained where scrutiny of the German text suggested that some a
From this critical reassessment it emerges that surprisingly little is known for certain about Beeth
Preface
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Young genius (1770-83)
2 Adolescence (1784-9)
3 Farewell to Bonn (1790-2)
4 The conquest of Vienna (1792-5)
5 Wider horizons (1796-8)
6 First quartets and First Symphony (1799-1800)
7 Hope and despair (1801-2)
8 After Heiligenstadt (1802-3)
9 L'amour conjugal (1804-6)
10 A cluster of masterpieces (1806-8)
11 Financial security? (1809-10)
12 Immortal Beloved (1811-12)
13 The political phase (1813-15)
14 Declining productivity (1815-17)
15 Gigantism (1818-20)
16 Completion of the Mass (1820-2)
17 Completion of the Ninth (1822-4)
18 End of an era (1824-7)
A Calendar
B List of works
C Personalia
D Select bibliography
Index
The family surroundings, then, provided a sound if not ideal environment for a young composer. So, t
Her third son-the composer-was conceived about a year later; he was born on 16 December 1770 and chr
Of the composer's first three years after birth, next to nothing is known. His maternal grandparents
time of the move to the Fischers'. Before long he was teaching the boy the piano, with Beethoven rep
Once he had begun learning, however, his genius quickly became apparent, through a combination of hi
for he never progressed as far as learning basic multiplication. As for his mother, she taught him m
It was probably his mother, more than anyone, who inculcated in him these feelings. Very serious i
In 1781 Neefe applied to succeed the elderly van den Eeden as court organist, and duly did so on the
From the same year we see the first evidence of Beethoven's efforts in composition. He had probably
Louis van Betthoven [sic], son of the above-mentioned tenor, a boy of eleven, and of most promising
for a time studied music in Leipzig, where Bach had lived and where his name was still renowned; he
I have now reached my eleventh year; and since then my Muse in hours of dedication has often whisper
Already at this age, Beethoven clearly had a sense of compulsion to compose, despite the absence of
Before the end of 1783, Neefe's desire that Beethoven should travel had been fulfilled, but the jour
By this time he was beginning to attract attention as a young composer, and visitors sometimes came
Further nourishment for the intellectually hungry Beethoven was provided by new friends. It was in 1
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