Category: Biographies
CHAP. VIII.--VICTORY AND SHADOW: Period of Greatest Creative Activity--Hummel--The Battle of Vittoria--Congress of Vienna--Maelzel--Pecuniary Difficulties--Adoption of Nephew--The Philharmonic Society--The Classical and Romantic Schools--The Jupiter Symphony--His Nephew's Cond...
The period between the years 1805 and 1814 may be considered that of Beethoven's greatest creative energy. It is almost impossible to keep pace with the stream of colossal works...
7. CHAPTER VI.has gone up from many a thousand hearts to the eternal throne; but who may presume to fathom the dispensations of a mysterious providence? or to question that wisdom which gives...
5. CHAPTER IV.Behold, then, our young musician at the long-desired goal--free from all depressing, pecuniary cares, with his pension secure from the Elector, and a little fund of his own to b...
6. CHAPTER V.Beethoven's period of study embraced over two years, during which many events took place that produced a revolution in his circumstances, and left him at their close in a very d...
8. CHAPTER VII."In love with an Ideal, A creature of his own imagination, A child of air, and echo of his heart; And like a lily on a river floating, She floats upon the river of his thoughts."
3. CHAPTER II.On the 17th of December, 1770, in the old house in the Bonngasse, Ludwig van Beethoven first saw the light. He was not the eldest child, Johann having about eighteen months prev...
1. v. Breuning 46CHAP. VIII.--VICTORY AND SHADOW: Period of Greatest Creative Activity--Hummel--The Battle of Vittoria--Congress of Vienna--Maelzel--Pecuniary Difficulties--Adoption of Nephew--T...
4. CHAPTER III.How "flat, stale, and unprofitable" must everything in Bonn have appeared to our Beethoven after the charms of Vienna--charms real in themselves, and surrounded by the ideal nim...
2. CHAPTER I.Towards the middle of the seventeenth century there lived in a Belgian village near Louvain a family of the name VAN BEETHOVEN. To their position in life we have no clue, unless...