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.

Details

Language

Duration

~2 hours (137K characters)

Publisher of text edition

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.

Subjects

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

About the author

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770–1827

A towering composer of the Classical and Romantic eras, he reshaped the symphony, sonata, and string quartet while creating some of the best-known music in the world. His life was marked by fierce independence, artistic ambition, and the struggle of hearing loss that never stopped him from composing.

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