| Description |
x, 319 leaves of plates, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, music ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
The master musicians
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Master musicians series.
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| Note |
"First published 1899"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265). |
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"List of the published works of Beethoven": pages 266-286. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Biographical. Birth and parentage ; Earliest training ; First appointment ; Interview with Mozart ; Teacher ; Pupil of Haydn and others ; A virtuoso ; First benefit concert ; A pupil in Czerny ; Idol of Vienna ; Becomes deaf ; Forsakes playing and conducting ; Financial embarrassments ; In love ; Harassing times ; Adopts his nephew ; Tries Law-Philharmonic Society's negotiations ; Mass in D ; Rossini Furore ; Gloomy forebodings ; Work and suffering ; Visits his brother ; Host and guest ; The coming end ; Final scenes ; Death and burial -- The man. A foremost personality ; Physical appearance ; Man and mind ; Characteristics ; Fondness for joking ; An undesirable lodger ; Some of the lodgings ; Troubles with servants ; A bohemian's den ; As a lover ; Female attachments ; A Postillon d'amour ; Temperament and disposition ; Affection for his nephew ; Good traits ; Receives Schubert ; Opinions on fellow-musicians ; Beethoven and the professors ; A bad man of business ; Intellectuality in musicians ; Beethoven maxims ; The "Letters" ; His politics ; Dismisses Napoleon ; Rates Goethe ; Habits of abstraction ; Portraits ; Masks, busts and monuments ; No formal religion ; Purity of life ; Worthy deeds -- |
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The musician. Sublimity of style and expression ; Student application ; Head and hand worker ; Early productiveness ; Clamourings for freedom ; Juvenile compositions ; The musical hour ; Beethoven the pianist ; The composer ; As conductor ; First symphony ; Mount of Olives and Prometheus ; Second symphony ; "Kreutzer" sonata ; "Eroica" symphony ; Concerto in G ; Fidelio ; Fourth symphony ; C minor symphony ; Sixth symphony ; Sees to business ; Seventh symphony ; Eighth symphony ; Political outpourings ; Ninth symphony ; Last Quartets ; As a sacred music composer ; Mass in C ; Mass in D ; Rise of the orchestra ; Orchestra as found by Beethoven ; Orchestral variety ; Instrumental influence ; Wagner on Beethoven's orchestration ; Manns on Wagner ; Wagner "additions" to Beethoven ; Metaphysical qualities of the music ; Humanity of his music ; Legitimacy of styles and practice ; Expansions of forms ; Painstaking workmanship ; As a chamber music composer ; Symphonist and sonatist ; Characteristics of style and diction ; Beethoven's three styles ; Followers. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. |
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Composers -- Biography.
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Composers -- Biography. |
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Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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Germany. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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