The Life Of Ludwig Van Beethoven Vol 1 3

Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330320594
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Vol. 3 The Contest for the Guardianship of Nephew Karl - The Conversation Books - A Wedding Song - In Travail with the Mass - The Year 1819. The key-note for much that must occupy us in a survey of the year 1819 is sounded by A New Years Greeting to Archduke Rudolph. Beethoven invokes all manner of blessings on the head of his pupil and patron and, begging a continuance of gracious benevolences for himself, sets forth a picture of his unhappy plight. A terrible occurrence has recently taken place in my family affairs which for a time robbed me of all my reasoning powers; and to this must be charged the circumstance that I have not called upon Y.R. H.in person nor made mention of the masterly Variations of my highly honored and exalted pupil, the favorite of the Muses. I do not dare to express either by word of mouth or in writing my thanks for the surprise and favor with which I have been honored, inasmuch as 1 occupy much too humble a position, nor dare 1, much as I would like and ardently as I long to do so, requite like with like. A little boy of eleven years runs away from his uncle to his indulgent mother whom he, for months at a time, has not been allowed to see, although both live within the same city limits. What else could be expected than that this should now and then occur? What should be thought of the child's heart if it did not. And when it did, who but Beethoven would have felt more than a passing disturbance of his equanimity at an offense so natural under the circumstances. But to him it was a "terrible occurrence" which for a space robbed him of his reason. No one of ordinary sensibilities can read the story without strong feelings of compassion for him - not that the boys freak was in any sense in itself a grievous misfortune, but because the uncles sufferings occasioned by it were so real and intense. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.