Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II by Elliot Forbes
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.
"A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written.. Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography."--The New York Times
Elliot Forbes (1917–2006) was the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University, renowned as a Beethoven scholar.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691027180 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691027188 |
| Title | Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part II |
| Author | Elliot Forbes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1967-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 552 |
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