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A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written. . . . Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography. -- The New York Times
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If you want to live with Beethoven, the Master himself, buy this book and the other volume as well. The facts and details of his life are exceptional.
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BEETHOVEN might well have adopted Kotzebue's title: "The Most Remarkable Year of my Life" and written his own history for 1814, in glowing and triumphant language; but now the theme modulates into a soberer key. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Part I by Elliot Forbes on 7 pages
- The Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler on 5 pages
- The Letters of Beethoven by Ludwig Van Beethoven in Front Matter, page 6, and Back Matter
- Beethoven Studies by Ludwig Misch on page 36, page 180, and page 309
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Beethoven and His World by Scott Burnham on 15 pages
- Beethoven: Eroica Symphony (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Thomas Sipe on 11 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Beethoven (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Glenn Stanley on 5 pages
- The Galitzin Quartets of Beethoven by Daniel K.L. Chua on 5 pages
- Beethoven's Ninth: A Political History by Esteban Buch on 4 pages
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