Download or read book The Immortal Beloved Compendium Comprehensive Edition written by John Klapproth and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Beloved Compendium (Comprehensive Edition) contains the latest research into this perennially fascinating person - the key to a full understanding of Beethoven as a man and as a musician. It includes copious extracts from the composer's and his contemporaries' letters and diaries, documents that provide first-hand evidence of his personality. This is an indispensable guide, a standard reference work on Beethoven, a constant source of elucidation and enjoyment. An exciting journey through musical literature, this Comprehensive Compendium summarizes the most authoritative current thinking on Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" in a digest of succinct and easily accessible sections. Each chapter is a cornucopia of information on every aspect of this topic. "Rigorously meticulous and objective, this book is indispensable to scholars as well as fascinating to amateurs and will be of greatest interest and value to all music lovers." (The Classical Musicologist)
Download or read book The Immortal Beloved Compendium written by John Klapproth and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Immortal Beloved Compendium, written in the light of the latest research into this perennially fascinating figure, is the key to a full understanding of Beethoven. It includes copious extracts from the composer's and his contemporaries' letters and diaries, providing first-hand evidence of his personality. Clear and concise commentaries illuminate the sources that document Beethoven's love life. This is an indispensable guide, a standard reference work on Beethoven, a constant source of elucidation and enjoyment. An exciting journey through musical literature, this Compendium summarizes the most authoritative current thinking on Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved" in a digest of succinct and easily accessible sections. Each chapter is a cornucopia of information on every aspect of this topic. "Rigorously meticulous and objective, this book is indispensable to scholars as well as fascinating to amateurs and will be of greatest interest and value to all music lovers." (The Classical Musicologist)
Download or read book The Immortal Beethoven Compendium written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Immortal Beloved Compendium written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beethoven Compendium written by Barry Cooper and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by four leading Beethoven scholars, this is an invaluable guide to his character, his social life, his religious beliefs, his politics, and above all his music.
Download or read book Beethoven Man of His Word written by Gail S. Altman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the world's greatest composers, died on March 26, 1827. Until now, his dying wish, that his memory and honor remain untarnished, has never been fulfilled. Book jacket.
Download or read book All about Beethoven s Immortal Beloved written by Harry Goldschmidt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-25 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful and comprehensive weighing up of all the arguments presented by his friend Solomon in favor of Antonie Brentano, followed by a detailed presentation of and then a synoptic comparison with the evidence supporting Josephine Brunsvik. The latter the clear winner. Harry Goldschmidt, Beethoven scholar of international repute, made the hunt for the Immortal Beloved to the focus of an unorthodox and precisely drawn Beethoven portrait. His sovereign style is based on many years of meticulous research. With annotations and amendments by translator John E Klapproth
Download or read book Beethoven and His Immortal Beloved Josephine Brunsvik written by Marie Elisabeth Tellenbach and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving and inspirational tour de force!Affecting, beautifully written, it drives home the intimate horrors and ironies and the difficulty of living with the knowledge of suffering.Compelling, it takes you on a fulfilling and engaging journey.”?(The Classical Musicologist)That Beethoven's famous Letter to the "Immortal Beloved" was to Josephine Brunsvik, his one and only Beloved, is now a fact, so obvious that one wonders why – especially in America – the truth had been veiled behind so much fantastic speculation and even denunciation.Marie-Elisabeth Tellenbach, musician, musicologist, historian and a Beethoven scholar of international repute, not only clears aside all this debris, but, based on many years of meticulous research, shows that Beethoven's love of Josephine was not only reflected in his letters and diary, but left traces in his music that speak in notes what words cannot express.With explanations, annotations and amendments by the translator, John E Klapproth (author of "Beethoven's Only Beloved: Josephine!").
Download or read book Ludwig Van Beethoven written by Carl Dahlhaus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many books have been written about Beethoven. But it is rare to find one that seeks an alternative between the fragmentation found in most specialized studies and the superficial overview typical of popular biography. In this volume, Carl Dahlhaus, one of the century's leading musicologists, combines interpretations of individual works that focus on issues of composition and musical history, with excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800; an age that was not only a "classical" period in the history of the arts but also one in that aesthetics carved itself a place in the center of philosophical attention. The theme of the book is the reconstruction of Beethoven's "musical thinking" from the evidence in the works themselves and their context in the history of ideas.
Download or read book Beethoven s Immortal Beloved written by Stefan Romano and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day after Beethoven’s death on March 26, 1827, his friends found, in a secret drawer of his desk, together with his will and two miniature portraits of two young women, a ten-page letter dated “July 6 in the morning,” that began with the intriguing incantation “My angel, my all, myself.” It included no address and no name of the addressee, except for the now famous my immortal beloved hyperbole, containing passionate declarations of love and was signed, “L., forever yours, forever mine, forever us.” Thus was born a biographical mystery of the artistic canon of the Western World, second only in tantalizing appeal to the identity of the person signing as William Shakespeare. Two hundred years later, biographers still have not come to a consensus on the mystery. Of the many candidates advanced in the meantime, only a few have survived in biographical literature. Stefan Romanó’s book brings the controversy to a close. It clarifies the existing evidence that has often been muddled, and at times reached the absurd, during almost two centuries of scholarly speculations. He also adds some new insights into the analysis of the evidence, thus making it easier for readers to draw their own conclusions, hopefully not different from his, namely, that only one of the candidates proposed so far fits the evidence. He also provides a substantially modified scenario from the one advanced by her proponents. Born in Romania during WWII and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1989, Stefan Romanó is not a musician nor a musicologist. He is an engineer by formation, a man of exactitude and clear and logical thinking, qualities that served him thoroughly when he became an amateur Beethoven scholar. A long-time member of American Beethoven Society and of its French counterpart, Association Beethoven France et Francophonie, he has published in their professional journals, bringing valuable contributions to understanding Beethoven’s life and creation. His “Ending the Fifth” article answered a question that had puzzled musicians, scholars and music lovers alike for two hundred years: why does Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony end with that apparently interminable series of C major chords? He took up the pen by force of circumstance for his Beethoven’s Immortal Beloved when he realized that all the proposed solutions to the mystery relied on wild speculation and sometimes even falsifying the existing evidence.
Download or read book Beethoven and the Brunsviks written by La Mara and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Mara assumed first that Therese Brunsvik was (secretly) Beethoven's "Immortal Beloved," based mainly on second-guessing by some of the later descendants of the Brunsvik family whom she had interviewed. The major value of La Mara's first book is in publishing of Therese's Memoirs - a very lively and readable account, not only of her own (long and reasonably happy) life, but also of her sister Josephine's (short and unhappy) life. And, of course, her never-ending adoration of Beethoven. In 1920, after discovering various letters and many other documents (at least what was accessible in the aftermath of the First World War), she corrected her previous view and was now convinced that Josephine was the One. La Mara was the first to get it right.
Download or read book The Beethoven compendium written by Barry A. R. Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beethoven s Immortal Beloved written by Edward Walden and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1812, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote three letters to an unnamed woman, whom he called "Immortal Beloved." The letters were discovered after Beethoven's death and ever since their discovery, there has been speculation regarding whom that Immortal Beloved might have been. In Beethoven's Immortal Beloved: Solving the Mystery, Edward Walden carefully and meticulously presents his case that the woman who Beethoven loved was Bettina Brentano, an artistic and talented musician in her own right. Setting the foundation for his argument, Walden begins the book with a general historical and sequential narrative that interweaves the lives of the three principle protagonists: Beethoven, the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Bettina Brentano. Walden explores in detail the key elements of the factual narrative and shows how those elements support his claim that Bettina was the Immortal Beloved. In addition, Walden addresses the attacks other Beethoven scholars have made against Bettina and reveals how such attacks were mistaken or unjustified. Thoroughly and rigorously researched, yet presented in a clear and engaging style, Beethoven's Immortal Beloved will appeal to Beethoven scholars, music lovers, and general readers alike, who will be captivated by the solving of this fascinating mystery.
Download or read book Immortal written by Jessica Duchen and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
Download or read book The Riddle of the Immortal Beloved written by Oscar George Sonneck and published by New York : G. Schirmer. This book was released on 1927 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biography Book written by Daniel S. Burt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marilyn to Mussolini, people captivate people. A&E's Biography, best-selling autobiographies, and biographical novels testify to the popularity of the genre. But where does one begin? Collected here are descriptions and evaluations of over 10,000 biographical works, including books of fact and fiction, biographies for young readers, and documentaries and movies, all based on the lives of over 500 historical figures from scientists and writers, to political and military leaders, to artists and musicians. Each entry includes a brief profile, autobiographical and primary sources, and recommended works. Short reviews describe the pertinent biographical works and offer insight into the qualities and special features of each title, helping readers to find the best biographical material available on hundreds of fascinating individuals.
Download or read book The Indispensable Composers written by Anthony Tommasini and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chief classical music critic of "The New York Times" explores the concept of greatness in relation to composers, considering elements of biography, influence, and shifting attitudes toward a composer's work over time.
