The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume III

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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--...

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--...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...