9781108064736 - The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Music, Band 1) von Thayer, Alexander Wheelock (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. The 1921 three-volume English edition of a landmark biography of one of the world's greatest composers. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Music. Num Pages: 404 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 181 x 22. . . 2013. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This authoritative biography of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a landmark in its meticulous research and use of source material. For the American author Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817-97), it represented a lifelong labour of love, yet it remained unfinished at his death. His friend Hermann Deiters (1833-1907) edited and translated Thayer's work into German, publishing three volumes which covered Beethoven's life to 1816. Since Deiters also died before the biography could be completed, musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) was called upon to conclude the work. The final German volumes appeared in 1907 and 1908. It was the American critic Henry Edward Krehbiel (1854-1923) who prepared the present work, the first and considerably revised English version, published in three volumes in 1921. Volume 1 covers Beethoven's career through to 1802, the year of the Heiligenstadt Testament.