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THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
VOLUME II
BEETHOVEN
After Mähler's Portrait of 1804
From the copy in possession of Mrs. Jabez Fox
The Life of
Ludwig van Beethoven
By Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Edited, revised and amended from the originalEnglish manuscript and the German editionsof Hermann Deiters and Hugo Riemann, concluded,and all the documents newly translated
By
Henry Edward Krehbiel
Volume II
Published by
The Beethoven Association
New York
SECOND PRINTING
Copyright, 1921.
By Henry Edward Krehbiel
From the press of G. Schirmer, Inc., New York
Printed in the U. S. A.
Contents of Volume II
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| Chapter I. The Year 1803—Cherubini’s Operas in Vienna and Rivalry between Schikaneder and the Imperial Theatres—Beethoven’s Engagement at the Theater-an-der-Wien—“Christus am Ölberg” again—Bridgetower and the “Kreutzer” Sonata—Career of the Violinist—Negotiations with Thomson for the Scottish Songs—New Friends—Willibrord Mähler’s Portrait of Beethoven—Compositions of the Year—A Pianoforte from Erard | 1 |
| Chapter II. The Year 1804—Schikaneder Sells His Theatre and is then Dismissed from the Management—Beethoven’s Contract Ended and Renewed by Baron Braun—The “Sinfonia Eroica”—Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia—Quarrel between Beethoven and von Breuning—The “Waldstein” Sonata—Sonnleithner, Treitschke and Gaveaux—Paër and His Opera “Leonora”—“Fidelio” Begun—Beethoven’s Growing Popularity—Publications of the Year | 22 |
| Chapter III. The Year 1805—Schuppanzigh’s First Quartet Concerts—First Public Performance of the “Eroica”—Pleyel—The Opera “Leonore,” or “Fidelio”; Jahn’s Study of the Sketchbook—The Singers and the Production—Vienna Abandoned by the Aristocracy as French Advance—Röckel’s Story of the Revision of the Opera—Compositions and Publications of the Year | 41 |
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