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The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven - Volume 2

Alexander Wheelock Thayer

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. . .The poets, in many cases, had a stanza of the original song as a model for the metre and rhythm; in all others, they and the composers alike received the bare melody, with nothing else to guide them in their work but Italian musical terms: allegro, moderato, andante, etc., etc., affettuoso, espressivo, scherzando, and the like. This is also true of the Welsh and Irish melodies. Beethoven began his labors for Thomson with the last named. In the preface to the first volume, dated “Edinburgh, anno 1814,” after describing his work in collecting Irish airs, Thomson says:

They were sent to Haydn to be harmonized along with the Scottish and Welsh airs; but after that celebrated composer had finished the greater part of those two works, his declining health only enabled him to harmonize a few of the Irish Melodies; and upon his death, it became necessary to find another composer to whom the task of harmonizing them should be committed.[37] Of all compose. . . Read More

Community Reviews

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- Ann-Marie - Oct 27, 2022

I owned this book because it is a foundational classic among Beethoven biographies, but for thirty years I didn't read it, thinking that the scholarship must be so old as to be completely outdated. Also, it is an imposing tome. But this year I made a commitment to read it, and I'm glad I did. It was

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- Tell Tale - Dec 20, 2021

A very long book with a lot of detail, but worth it if you love Beethoven!
-Gregory Kerkman

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- Peter - Sep 13, 2018

This is a very large book on Beethoven. Should be known it is a very acaademic. Not a casual read.

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- Toby - Jun 26, 2018

This is a Nineteenth century biography that has not travelled the centuries well. In fact I'm sure that had I realised that this was over 100 years old when I bought it from the Folio Society in 2001 I would probably have refrained. It was purchases like these that eventually encouraged me to leave

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