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Beethoven Biography at the 250th Anniversary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2021

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1 Press release, 29 October 2019, website of the Beethoven Jubiläums GmbH, <https://www.bthvn2020.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Pressemeldungen/191028_Press_Release_Start_conference_BTHVN2020.pdf> (accessed 7 February 2021).

2 Burnham, Scott, Beethoven Hero (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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4 See especially Rumph, Stephen, Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Mathew, Nicholas, Political Beethoven (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)Google Scholar.

5 Examples of the many specialized studies in this area include John A. Rice, Empress Marie Therese and Music at the Viennese Court, 1792–1807 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); David Wyn Jones, The Symphony in Beethoven’s Vienna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); and Nancy November, Cultivating String Quartets in Beethoven’s Vienna (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2017).

6 See, for instance, the recent Music and Biography, ed. Joanne Cormac, special issue, 19th-Century Music, 44 (2020–1), 61–132, with contributions from Simon P. Keefe, Joanne Cormac, Kristin M. Franseen and Paul Watt; and Christopher Wiley, ‘Biography and Life-Writing’, The Oxford Handbook of Music and Intellectual Culture in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Paul Watt, Sarah Collins and Michael Allis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 77–102.

7 Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig van Beethovens Leben, ed. Hermann Deiters, 3 vols. (Berlin: F. Schneider, 1866–79); 2nd edn, completed by Hugo Riemann, 5 vols. (Berlin: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1907–15); English edn as The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, ed. and trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel, 3 vols. (New York: Beethoven Association, 1921), rev. Elliot Forbes as Thayer’s Life of Beethoven (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964).

8 See Stadlen, Peter, ‘Schindler’s Beethoven Forgeries’, Musical Times, 118/1613 (1977), 549–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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12 Original text in Richard Wagner, Sämtliche Briefe, ed. Gertrud Strobel and Werner Wolf, 8 vols. (Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1967–93), i: 1830–42, 483.

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14 Proceedings published as Beiträge ’76–78: Beethoven-Kolloquium 1977: Dokumentation und Aufführungspraxis, ed. Rudolf Klein (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1978).

15 Nottebohm’s main publications on Beethoven’s sketches are Ein Skizzenbuch von Beethoven (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1865); Beethoveniana (Leipzig: Rieter-Biedermann, 1872); Ein Skizzenbuch von Beethoven aus dem Jahre 1803 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1880); and Zweite Beethoveniana (Leipzig: C. F. Peters, 1887).

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