The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven: Volume 3

The 1921 three-volume English edition of a landmark biography of one of the world's greatest composers.

Alexander Wheelock Thayer (Author), Hermann Deiters (Author), Hugo Riemann (Author), Henry Edward Krehbiel (Edited and translated by)

9781108064750, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2013

366 pages, 1 b/w illus.
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.64 kg

This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet it remained unfinished at his death. His friend Hermann Deiters (1833–1907) edited and translated Thayer's work into German, publishing three volumes which covered Beethoven's life to 1816. Since Deiters also died before the biography could be completed, musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849–1919) was called upon to conclude the work. The final German volumes appeared in 1907 and 1908. It was the American critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854–1923) who prepared the present work, the first and considerably revised English version, published in three volumes in 1921. Volume 3 covers Beethoven's final years, his ninth symphony and late quartets.

1. The year 1819
2. End of litigation
3. The year 1822
4. The year 1823
5. The year 1824
6. Incidents and labors of the year 1824
7. The year 1825
8. A year of sickness and sorrow
9. Karl van Beethoven
10. The last days at Gneixendorf
General index
Index to compositions.

Subject Areas: Classical music [c 1750 to c 1830 AVGC4]