Beethoven : a life /
This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer's life and works, written by a renowned conductor and scholar of Beethoven's music. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, Jan Caeyers...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Daniel Hope
- Part one. The artist as a young man (1770-1792). Louis van Beethoven : a grandfather figure ; Jean van Beethoven : the absent father? ; The early years ; Christian Gottlob Neefe : the mentor ; The young professional ; Bonn turns to Vienna ; Beethoven's first crisis ; A second home, and new horizons ; Renewed vigor and the first major works ; Farewell to Bonn
- Part two. A time of proving (1792-1802). Vienna in 1792 ; Beethoven's first patron : Karl von Lichnowsky ; Haydn and Albrechtsberger ; Career plans ; Family, friends, and loves in Vienna ; In anticipation of greater things ; Lobkowitz's "center of excellence" ; The immortal beloved : episode one ; The road to a broader public ; A word from the critics ; The disciples : Carl Czerny and Ferdinand Ries ; The Heiligenstadt testament
- Part three. The master (1802-1809). A "new way" forward ; The laboratorium artificiosum ; Publishing pains and the "warehouse of the arts" ; Composer in residence ; Salieri's opera lessons ; The mystery of the Eroica ; The immortal beloved : episode two ; In search of the perfect piano ; Leonore : a work in progress ; The golden years
- Part four. Crowds and power (1809-1816). A new social status ; New prospects ; An imperial pupil ; Beethoven and Goethe ; The immortal beloved : episode three ; Se non è vero ... ; The end of the classical symphony ; Music for the masses ; A lucrative sideline ; From Leonore to Fidelio ; From coffee and cake to congress and kitsch ; The fight for a child ; From the "immortal beloved" to a "distant beloved"
- Part five. The lonely way (1816-1827). Longing for greater things ; Post-congress Vienna ; London plans ; A Faustian sonata and a diabolical contraption ; The Missa solemnis : a mass for peace ; The circle is complete : the late piano works ; Estrangement ; Encounters with the younger generation ; An ode to joy ; Decline ; Karl's emancipation ; Money matters ; The discovery of heaven : the late string quartets ; Comoedia finita est.
