Category: Biographies

The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III

Nephew Karl--Mother and Uncle in a Legal Struggle--The Lad’s Education--Conversation Books--A Wedding Song--In Travail with the Mass in D--The Commission for an Oratorio from the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde--Visits from Zelter and Friedrich Schneider--Creative Work of the Ye...

Chapters

22. Chapter X

The Conversation Books add nothing to the picturesque side of the account of Beethoven’s sojourn in Gneixendorf as it has been drawn from other sources. They indicate that there...

16. Chapter IV

The Solemn Mass in D--A Royal Subscription--More Negotiations with England--Opera Projects--Grillparzer’s “Melusine”--The Diabelli Variations--Summer Visitors--An Englishman’s A...

15. Chapter III

It is now desirable to disregard the strict chronological sequence of incident and dispose, so far as is possible, of the history of the great Mass in D prior to the adoption of...

19. Chapter VII

The letter from Neate referred to at the conclusion of the last chapter brought with it an invitation from the Philharmonic Society of London which kept the thought of an Englis...

20. Chapter VIII

The year which witnessed the last of Beethoven’s completed labors, and saw what by general consent might be set down as the greatest of his string quartets, that in C-sharp mino...

14. Chapter II

Almost involuntarily, in passing in review the incidents of the year whose story has just been told and projecting a glance into the near future, the question arises: Where, in...

17. Chapter V

The Symphony in D Minor--Its Technical History--Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”--An Address to Beethoven--The Concerts of 1824--Laborious and Protracted Preparations--Production of the...

13. Chapter I

The key-note for much that must occupy us in a survey of the year 1819 is sounded by A New Year’s Greeting to Archduke Rudolph. Beethoven invokes all manner of blessings on the...

21. Chapter IX

Karl van Beethoven--A Wayward Ward and an Unwise Guardian--Beethoven and His Nephew--An Ill-advised Foster-father and a Graceless, Profligate Nephew--Effect on Beethoven’s Chara...

18. Chapter VI

At the end of the chapter preceding the last, which recorded the doings of the year 1823, Beethoven was left in his lodgings in the Ungargasse, occupied with work upon the Ninth...

9. CHAPTER VII. The Year 1825. The Invitation from the

Philharmonic Society of London--The Ninth Symphony Performed at Aix-la-Chapelle--Mass and Symphony Delivered to Schott and Sons--Unpleasant Results of an Attempted Joke on Hasli...

10. CHAPTER VIII. A Year of Sickness and Sorrow--The

Last String Quartets--Wolfmayer Commissions a “Requiem” and Pays in Advance--Many Works _in petto_--Controversy with Prince Galitzin and His Son--The Fugue in the B-flat Quartet...

8. CHAPTER VI. Incidents and Labors of the Year 1824--A

Truce with the Hated Sister-in-Law--The Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde’s Oratorio--Bernard’s Libretto--The Society Forgives Beethoven His Debt and Elects Him an Honorary Member--...

12. CHAPTER X. The Last Days at Gneixendorf--A Brother’s

Warning--Beethoven and His Kinspeople--The Fateful Journey to Vienna--The Fatal Illness--The Physicians and Their Treatment--The Nephew Exonerated from a Slanderous Accusation--...

6. CHAPTER IV. The Year 1823--The Roman Ritual and

the Mass in D--Subscriptions Asked from Royal Courts--Incidents of the Appeal--Goethe and Cherubini Enlisted as Agents--A Medal from the King of France--Further Negotiations wit...

7. CHAPTER V. The Year 1824--The Symphony in D

Minor--Its Technical History--The Choral Finale and Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”--First Performance of the Work and Portions of the Mass--An Address to Beethoven--Laborious and Protr...

1. VOLUME III

3. CHAPTER I. The Year 1819--Guardianship of Beethoven’s

Nephew Karl--Mother and Uncle in a Legal Struggle--The Lad’s Education--Conversation Books--A Wedding Song--In Travail with the Mass in D--The Commission for an Oratorio from th...

4. CHAPTER II. End of the Litigation over the Guardianship of

the Nephew--A Costly Victory--E. T. A. Hoffmann--An Analytical Programme--Beethoven’s Financial Troubles--Adagios and English Hymn-Tunes--Stieler’s Portrait--Arrested as a Vagra...

5. CHAPTER III. The Year 1822--The Mass in D--Beethoven

and His Publishers--Simrock--Schlesinger--C. F. Peters--Phantom Masses--Johann van Beethoven: His Appearance and Character--Becomes His Brother’s Agent--Meetings with Rochlitz a...

2. Volume III

11. CHAPTER IX. Karl van Beethoven--A Wayward Ward