A
Amenda, Carl, 10, 65
Antwerp, 4 n.
Appassionata, sonata, 18, 154
v. Arnim, Bettina, 29 n.
"Art unites everybody," 105
B
Bach, J. S., 21, 48, 82, 104, 105;
his fugues, 160
Beauty, 101
Beethoven, Carl, 14, 38, 39;
Johann, 14
Beethoven, Ludwig:
Birth, 3;
Flemish origin, 3, 30;
his Father, 4;
his Mother, 4;
his Grandfather, 4 n.;
his Republican sympathies, 8, 17;
his deafness, 9;
his first concert in Vienna, 9;
unhappiness, 15;
in love, 22;
his short-sightedness, 22;
love-letter, 23;
consciousness of power, 26;
his taste in literature, 27;
"pedantic," 34;
his deafness, 34;
conversation-books, 35 n.;
unrestfulness of mind, 37;
lodgings, 37 n.;
foster-son, 41;
note-books, 43;
death-bed, 51;
operations, 51 n.;
his will, 57-61;
his letters, 65-98;
his bad health, 73;
deafness, 74-5, 78;
"raptus," 77;
prices for his copyrights, 82-3;
approaching end, 97;
his Thoughts on Music, 101-6;
his piano-playing, 104
Bernhard, Mme. de, 9
Bibliography, 195
Bilingual tempo indications, 158
Bonaparte, Jerome, 33
———, Napoleon, 19, 31, 112
Bonn, 3, 6, 85
Botticelli's Bambino, 12
Brahms, 165
Braunthal, 2
Brentano, Bettina, 27
———, Maximiliana, 162
v. Breuning, Councillor, 96, 98
v. Breuning, Eleonore, 5, 69, 84
v. Breuning, Steffen, 76, 80
v. Breuning, Stephen, 34
v. Brunswick, Franz, 32, 154
v. Brunswick, Therese, 20, 25, 37, 156
Brutus, 28 n.
C
Cherubini, 38 n., 105
Choral Symphony, 36, 43
Chorus, 43
Christ, 28 n.
Church music, 103
C Minor, 53
Coda, 165
Composing, 102
Coriolanus Overture, 18
Critics and Criticism, 106
D
Divine, The, in Music, 101
E
Egmont, 19
Elgar, Enigma Variations, 115
"Englishmen, magnanimous," 95
v. ErdÖdy, Maria, 34 n., 54
Eroica, 53
—— Symphony, 17
Ertmann, Freund Dorothea, 160
F
"Fate knocks at the door," 118
Fidelio, 35, 102
First Symphony, 12
Fourth Quartet, 18
Freudenberg, 104
Fugue, 162, 164, 165
Funeral March, 16, 19, 113
G
Galitzin, Prince, 38
Gallenberg, Count, 14
Gelinck, 9
Gellert, 16
Gerardi, FrÄulein, 68
Gerhard, Wilhelm, 103
Godesburg, 85
Goethe, 27, 28, 29 n., 30 n.
Goethe, Faust, 48
Grillparzer, 49, 53
—— Melusina, 48
Guicciardi, Giulietta, 13
H
Hammerclavier, Sonata for the, 161
Handel, 48, 104
Heiligenstadt Testament, 14, 60
Hoche, 19
Hofmeister, Capellmeister, 81
Homer, 27 n.
Hornemann's miniature of Beethoven, 16 n.
Hulin, General, 19
Hummel, 94
I
"Immortal Beloved," Beethoven's, 23
d'Indy, Vincent F., 164
Italy, 48
K
Kempis' Imitation of Christ, 52 n.
King Lear, 44
Kinsky, Prince, 33
Klein, Franz, 32
KÖrner's Odyssey, 48
Kreutzer Sonata, 16
Kuffner (poet), 49
L
Les Adieux, 155
"Lebe-wohl," 158
Lichnovsky, Prince, 60, 73
Lobkovitz, 19, 33
Lorchen, 77, 81
M
Macbeth, 42 n.
Malchus, 71
Martonvasar, 20
Mass in D, 38, 162, 163
Mendelssohn, 157
Michael Angelo, 28 n., 39
Military band, 129
Modulation, 128
Moonlight Sonata, 16
Moscheles I., 2, 48, 93, 94
Mozart, 4, 105
—— Don Giovanni, 13
MÜller, Dr., 49
N
Napoleon I., 19, 31, 112
Nephew, Beethoven's, 50
O
Ode to Joy, 42
"Opera, An", 21
Opferlied, 87
Orchestra, 119
P
Palestrina, 103
Passage work, 104
PÉpiniÈre, 85
Philharmonic Society, 93, 94-5, 97
Philosophy, 101
Pianoforte Concertos, 19
Plutarch, 11, 27 n., 75
Q
Quartets analyzed, 179
Quartets, Op. 59, 34
Quartet, Op. 130, Finale, 132, 38
Quartets, Op. 132, 43
Quartet, Op. 130, Final, 50
Quips and sallies, 117
R
Revolution, French, 7
Rhenish Song, 12
Rhine valley, 6, 51, 72
Rhythm, 123
Rossini, 34, 45
Rudolph, Archduke, 33, 102, 103, 161, 165
Russell (English traveller), 37
S
Scale, Perversity of, 124
Scherzo, 114, 119, 162
Schindler, 31, 35, 36 n., 47, 159
Schmidt, Professor, 59, 60
Schott, Brothers, 90, 96
Schiller, 42 n.
Schumann, 53, 115
Second Period Style, 112
Septet, 12
Shakespeare, 3, 27 n., 28 n.
Shedlock, J. S., 65 n.
Six Religious Songs, 16
Smart, Sir George, 92
Socrates, 28 n.
Sonatas analyzed, 133
Sonata in D, 11
Sonata in F sharp, 23
Sonata with the Funeral March, 16
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, 16
Sonata, Moonlight, 16
Sonata, Kreutzer, 16
Sonata, Appassionata, 18, 154
Sonata, Op. 106, 38
Sonata, Les Adieux, 155
Sonate pathÉtique, 11
Song of Farewell, 8
Spiker, Dr., 49
Stadler, Abb., 105
Steinhauser's sketch of Beethoven, 8
String Quartet, in A minor, Finale, 126
String Quartet, Opus 132, 164
String Quartet, 1, Opus 18, No. 1, in F, 179
String Quartet, 2, Op. 18, No. 2, in G major, 179
String Quartet, 3, Op. 18, No. 3, in D, 180
String Quartet, 4, Op. 18, No. 4, in C minor, 181
String Quartet, 5, Op. 18, No. 5, in A, 181
String Quartet, 6, Op. 18, No. 6, in B flat, 181
String Quartet, 7, Op. 59, No. 1, in F, 183
String Quartet, 8, Op. 59, No. 2, in E minor, 184
String Quartet, 9, Op. 59, No. 3, in G major, 185
String Quartet, 10, Op. 74, in E flat, 186
String Quartet, 11, Op. 95, in F minor, 186
String Quartet, 12, Op. 127, in E flat, 187
String Quartet, 13, Op. 130, in B flat, 188
String Quartet, 14, Op. 133, in C sharp minor, 189
String Quartet, 15, Op. 132, in A minor, 190
String Quartet, 16, Op. 135, in F major, 191
Symphonies (The nine), analysed:
No. 1, 109
" 2, 110
" 3, 112
" 4, 115
" 5, 117
" 6, 120
" 7, 122
" 8, 124
" 9, 126
Symphony, Eroica, 17
—— Second, 16
—— C Minor, 19
—— Fourth, 21
—— in B flat, 22
—— Seventh, 29
—— Eighth, 29
—— Ninth, 42, 46, 47n.
—— Tenth, 43, 48, 48n.
—— Eleventh, 43
—— in A, 30
—— Ninth, metronomized, 95
—— Ninth, 115
—— Pastoral, 120
T
TannhÄuser, 48 n.
"Tedesca," 156
Theme of Joy, 43
Thomson, George, 103
TÖplitz, 28
Touch in Piano-playing, 104
U
Umlauf, 35
Una corda, 164
V
Variations, 165
Vienna, 6, 7, 31, 32, 45, 109
Violin Sonatas analyzed, 169
Violin Sonata, 1, Opus 12, No. 1, in D, 169
Violin Sonata, 2, Op. 12, No. 2, in A, 170
Violin Sonata, 3, Op. 12, No. 3, in E flat, 170
Violin Sonata, 4, Op. 23, in A minor and major, 170
Violin Sonata, 5, Op. 24, in F, 171
Violin Sonata, 6, Op. 30, No. 1, in A, 172
Violin Sonata, 7, Op. 30, No. 2, in C minor, 173
Violin Sonata, 8, Op. 30, No. 3, in G, 173
Violin Sonata, 9, Op. 47, in A, 174
Violin Sonata, 10, Op. 96, in G, 175
Voltaire, 106
W
Wagner, 32
—— Woodland Murmurs, 121
Waldstein, Count, 153
Wegeler, Dr. F., 6, 10, 15 n., 51, 54 n., 72, 78, 84, 88, 91
Wegeler, Julius, 87
Wegeler, Eln., 88
Z
Zelter, 29 n., 30 n.
Printed in Great Britain by Ebenezer Baylis & Son, Worcester.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
This project is dedicated to the memory of Eduardo SuÁrez, who loved Beethoven's music and this book.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. The trend in the original book was to hyphenate compound words. Therefore, for the words with both variants present the hyphenated variant was chosen in most of the cases.
The list item in the Table of Contents pointing to page 93 is for a letter to I. Moscheles and not to Sir G. Smart as it was printed originally in the book. There is another letter to I. Moscheles on page 94 that is missing in the original. These errors have been corrected.
The present book was originally written in French and has been translated into English. The Transcriber believes a translation error has been made in the English version. The text in question in page 198 of the book reads as follows:
This biography was commenced in 1866, but was interrupted by the death of the author in 1897 at Trieste, where he was the American Consul. The work stood still till 1816,...
For the above portion of text, the French version ("Vie de Beethoven", Romain Rolland, Hachette, 1914, 7eme. edition, Page 148) reads as follows:
CommencÉ en 1866; interrompu par la mort de l'auteur, en 1897, À Trieste, oÙ il Était consul des États-Unis; l'ouvrage s'arrÊte À l'annÉe 1816...
The Transcriber believes that the above French text should be translated into English as:
This biography was commenced in 1866, but was interrupted by the death of the author in 1897 at Trieste, where he was the American Consul. The work stops at the year 1816...
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been added to the public domain.
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