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Beethoven, A Life
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Jan Caeyers
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March 29 2021
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9780520975026
Publication date (Print):
September 08 2020
Publication date (Online):
March 29 2021
DOI:
10.1525/9780520975026
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. i
Front Matter
pp. ix
Contents
pp. ix
Table of Contents
pp. xiii
Foreword
pp. xiii
FOREWORD
pp. xv
PROLOGUE
pp. xv
Prologue
Plates
Plates
Plates
pp. 3
1 Louis van Beethoven a grandfather figure
pp. 3
Louis van Beethoven:
pp. 10
2 Jean van Beethoven the absent father?
pp. 10
Jean van Beethoven:
pp. 15
The Early Years
pp. 15
3 The Early Years
pp. 23
4 Christian Gottlob Neefe the mentor
pp. 23
Christian Gottlob Neefe:
pp. 29
The Young Professional
pp. 29
5 The Young Professional
pp. 34
Bonn Turns to Vienna
pp. 34
6 Bonn Turns to Vienna
pp. 42
Beethoven’s First Crisis
pp. 42
7 Beethoven’s First Crisis
pp. 48
8 A Second Home, and New Horizons
pp. 48
A Second Home, and New Horizons
pp. 54
9 Renewed Vigor and the First Major Works
pp. 54
Renewed Vigor and the First Major Works
pp. 62
Farewell to Bonn
pp. 62
10 Farewell to Bonn
pp. 71
11 Vienna in 1792
pp. 71
Vienna in 1792
pp. 79
Beethoven’s First Patron:
pp. 79
12 Beethoven’s First Patron karl von lichnowsky
pp. 89
Haydn and Albrechtsberger
pp. 89
13 Haydn and Albrechtsberger
pp. 97
Career Plans
pp. 97
14 Career Plans
pp. 111
15 Family, Friends, and Loves in Vienna
pp. 111
Family, Friends, and Loves in Vienna
pp. 124
16 In Anticipation of Greater Things
pp. 124
In Anticipation of Greater Things
pp. 130
17 Lobkowitz’s “Center of Excellence”
pp. 130
Lobkowitz’s “Center of Excellence”
pp. 138
18 The Immortal Beloved episode one
pp. 138
The Immortal Beloved:
pp. 144
The Road to a Broader Public
pp. 144
19 The Road to a Broader Public
pp. 155
20 A Word from the Critics
pp. 155
A Word from the Critics
pp. 161
21 The Disciples carl czerny and ferdinand ries
pp. 161
The Disciples:
pp. 168
22 The Heiligenstadt Testament
pp. 168
The Heiligenstadt Testament
pp. 181
23 A “New Way” Forward
pp. 181
A “New Way” Forward
pp. 186
24 The Laboratorium Artificiosum
pp. 186
The Laboratorium Artificiosum
pp. 191
Publishing Pains and the “Warehouse of the Arts”
pp. 191
25 Publishing Pains and the “Warehouse of the Arts”
pp. 199
Composer in Residence
pp. 199
26 Composer in Residence
pp. 213
Salieri’s Opera Lessons
pp. 213
27 Salieri’s Opera Lessons
pp. 217
28 The Mystery of the Eroica
pp. 217
The Mystery of the Eroica
pp. 231
29 The Immortal Beloved episode two
pp. 231
The Immortal Beloved:
pp. 246
30 In Search of the Perfect Piano
pp. 246
In Search of the Perfect Piano
pp. 254
31 Leonore a work in progress
pp. 254
Leonore:
pp. 267
The Golden Years
pp. 267
32 The Golden Years
pp. 297
A New Social Status
pp. 297
33 A New Social Status
pp. 306
34 New Prospects
pp. 306
New Prospects
pp. 311
An Imperial Pupil
pp. 311
35 An Imperial Pupil
pp. 318
Beethoven and Goethe
pp. 318
36 Beethoven and Goethe
pp. 330
The Immortal Beloved:
pp. 330
37 The Immortal Beloved episode three
pp. 337
38 Se non è vero . . .
pp. 337
Se non è vero . . .
pp. 344
The End of the Classical Symphony
pp. 344
39 The End of the Classical Symphony
pp. 353
40 Music for the Masses
pp. 353
Music for the Masses
pp. 363
41 A Lucrative Sideline
pp. 363
A Lucrative Sideline
pp. 369
From Leonore to Fidelio
pp. 369
42 From Leonore to Fidelio
pp. 381
From Coffee and Cake to Congress and Kitsch
pp. 381
43 From Coffee and Cake to Congress and Kitsch
pp. 390
The Fight for a Child
pp. 390
44 The Fight for a Child
pp. 401
45 From the “Immortal Beloved” to a “Distant Beloved”
pp. 401
From the “Immortal Beloved” to a “Distant Beloved”
pp. 411
46 Longing for Greater Things
pp. 411
Longing for Greater Things
pp. 420
Post-Congress Vienna
pp. 420
47 Post-Congress Vienna
pp. 425
48 London Plans
pp. 425
London Plans
pp. 431
49 A Faustian Sonata and a Diabolical Contraption
pp. 431
A Faustian Sonata and a Diabolical Contraption
pp. 442
The Missa solemnis:
pp. 442
50 The Missa solemnis a mass for peace
pp. 455
51 The Circle Is Complete the late piano works
pp. 455
The Circle Is Complete:
pp. 468
Estrangement
pp. 468
52 Estrangement
pp. 474
53 Encounters with the Younger Generation
pp. 474
Encounters with the Younger Generation
pp. 482
An Ode to Joy
pp. 482
54 An Ode to Joy
pp. 495
Decline
pp. 495
55 Decline
pp. 499
56 Karl’s Emancipation
pp. 499
Karl’s Emancipation
pp. 509
Money Matters
pp. 509
57 Money Matters
pp. 514
The Discovery of Heaven:
pp. 514
58 The Discovery of Heaven the late string quartets
pp. 532
59 Comoedia finita est
pp. 532
Comoedia finita est
pp. 541
Acknowledgments
pp. 541
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pp. 543
Notes
pp. 543
NOTES
pp. 601
Bibliography
pp. 601
BIBLIOGRAPHY
pp. 611
Illustration credits
pp. 611
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
pp. 615
Index of Works
pp. 615
INDEX OF WORKS
pp. 620
Index of People
pp. 620
INDEX OF PEOPLE
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