Beethoven's conversation books

Beethoven's conversation books

by Beethoven, Ludwig van

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had begun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Often, he himself used the pocket-sized booklets to make shopping lists and other reminders, including occasional early sketches for his composit…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Beethoven's conversation books / edited and translated by Theodore Albrecht.

Summary

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) is recognized the world over as a composer of musical masterpieces exhibiting heroic strength, particularly in the face of his increasing deafness from ca. 1798. By 1818, the Viennese composer had begun carrying blank booklets with him, for his acquaintances to jot their sides of conversations, while he answered aloud. Often, he himself used the pocket-sized booklets to make shopping lists and other reminders, including occasional early sketches for his compositions. Today, 139 of these booklets survive, covering the years 1818 up to the composer's death in 1827 and including such topics as music, history, politics, art, literature, theatre, religion, and education as perceived on a day-to-day basis in post-Napoleonic Europe. An East German edition, begun in the 1960s and essentially complete by 2001, represents a diplomatic transcription of these documents. It is a masterpiece of pure scholarship but is difficult to use for anyone who is not a specialist. Moreover, Beethoven scholarship has moved on significantly since the long-ranging genesis of the German edition. 00Theodore Albrecht is Professor of Musicology at Kent State University, Ohio.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2019
  • Edition:English edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):The Boydell Press
  • Place of Publication:Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2019

Notes

Original German edition published: Leipzig : Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig, ©1972.

The Physical Object

  • Description:volumes : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781783271504, 1783271515, 9781783271511, 1783271507
  • oclc:on1143845306
  • LC Classification:ML410.B4
  • Dewey Decimal:780.92

Table of Contents

Volume 1. Nos. 1 to 8 (February 1818 to March 1820)

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Subjects

Austria Beethoven, Ludwig van Biographies Composers Composers -- Biography. -- Austria Compositeurs -- Biographies. -- Autriche Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Sources

Writers

Beethoven, Ludwig van Albrecht, Theodore

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