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Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

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Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

by Ludwig van Beethoven

EN·~2 hours·17 chapters

Chapters

17 total

Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel

0:19

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

4:21

PREFACE

5:18

CONCERNING ART

5:13

LOVE OF NATURE

5:13

CONCERNING TEXTS

4:35

ON COMPOSING

12:58

ON PERFORMING MUSIC

11:05

ON HIS OWN WORKS

11:09

ON ART AND ARTISTS

3:50

Description

Translation of Beethoven im eigenen Wort.

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Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by John Mamoun, Charles Franks, S. Morrison, R. Zimmerman, Andrew Sly, the Distributed Proofreaders Team, and David Widger

Release date

2002-11-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3528

Subjects

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 Composers -- Germany -- Biography ML

About the author

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827

A towering figure in music history, this German composer reshaped the symphony, piano sonata, and string quartet while bridging the Classical and Romantic eras. Even as hearing loss overtook him, he created works of remarkable force, tenderness, and ambition that still define the concert hall.

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