Category: Biographies
This edition of “Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words,” was translated into English and published in 1905 by B.W. Huebsch. It was also republished unabridged by Dover Publications, Inc., in a 1964 edition, ISBN 0-486-21261-0.
(To Frau Streicher, in reference to the troubles which his servants gave him, many of which, no doubt, were due to faults of his own, excusable in a man in his condition of heal...
4. Chapter 4(To the directorate of the “Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde” of Vienna, January, 1824, in negotiations for an oratorio, “The Victory of the Cross” [which he had been commissioned...
3. Chapter 380. “I haven’t a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recogn...
2. Chapter 229. “Goethe’s poems exert a great power over me not only because of their contents but also because of their rhythms; I am stimulated to compose by this language, which builds i...
1. Chapter 1This edition of “Beethoven: the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words,” was translated into English and published in 1905 by B.W. Huebsch. It was also republished una...
6. Chapter 6288. “I was formerly inconsiderate and hasty in the expression of my opinions, and thereby I made enemies. Now I pass judgment on no one, and, indeed, for the reason that I do n...