The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven: Volume 1

di Alexander Wheelock Thayer (Autore)

Hermann Deiters (Autore)

Hugo Riemann (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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 1 covers Beethoven's career through to 1802, the year of the Heiligenstadt Testament.

• Autore: Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Music
• Anno: 2013
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 404 p.
• Dimensioni: 254 x 178 mm
• Peso: 700 gr.
• EAN: 9781108064736

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