Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part 1Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor. |
Contents
The Electoral Court at Bonn | 3 |
The Beethoven Family | 41 |
Beethovens Birth and Childhood 17701784 | 53 |
Elector Max Franz and his CourtThe Von Breun ing FamilyThe Years 1784 to 1786 | 73 |
The Years 1787 to 1788The Operatic Seasons from 1789 to 1792 | 86 |
The Years 1789 to 1792The Move to Vienna | 100 |
The Compositions Written at Bonn 17861792 | 118 |
Beethovens Teachers in ViennaViennese Com posers and Society | 134 |
The Year 1802 The Heiligenstadt TestamentBeet hovens BrothersCorrespondence with Pub lishers | 300 |
The Year 1803 The Court TheatreWork on the Eroica Symphony | 324 |
The Year 1804 Beginning of Work on Leonore | 344 |
The Year 1805 Public Performance of the Eroica | 363 |
The Year 1806 The Revision of LeonoreThe | 393 |
The Year 1807 Work on the Fifth SymphonyThe | 412 |
The Year 1808 Completion of the Fifth and Sixth | 430 |
The Year 1809 The Annuity ContractThe Siege | 453 |
The Years 1793 to 1795 | 160 |
The Years 1796 and 1797 | 180 |
The Years 1798 and 1799 | 203 |
Beethovens Friends and Fellow MusiciansThe Brunsvik FamilyCharacter TraitsSketch booksPossible Origin of Deafness | 219 |
The Year 1800 | 254 |
The Year 1801 Correspondence with Publishers Early Criticisms of Beethovens MusicLetters to Amenda and Wegeler Corfcerning Deafness Ferdinan... | 268 |
The Year 1810 Decrease in ProductivityTherese | 480 |
The Year 1811 Bettina Beethoven and GoetheA | 504 |
The Year 1812 The Austrian FinanzPatent Second | 522 |
The Year 1813 Financial DifficultiesSuspension | 549 |
The Year 1814 Quarrel with MälzelThe Revision | 569 |
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