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Beethoven, a character study Together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven
The Project Gutenberg eBook, Beethoven, by George Alexander Fischer
Title: Beethoven
Author: George Alexander Fischer
Release Date: February 22, 2005 [eBook #15141]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEETHOVEN***
E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Karina Aleksandrova, Ralph Janke,
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| Transcriber's Notes |
| 1. Corrected spelling of Maelzel's invention in one place from 'Panharmonican' to 'Panharmonicon'. |
| 2. In the index, corrected 'Krumpholtz' to 'Krumpholz', 'Origen of the dance' to 'Origin of the dance', and 'Neafe' to 'Neefe'. |
BEETHOVEN
A CHARACTER STUDY
TOGETHER WITH
WAGNER'S INDEBTEDNESS TO BEETHOVEN
BY
GEORGE ALEXANDER FISCHER
Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdentagen Nicht in Aeonen untergehn.
Goethe.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1905
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK
TO THE MEMORY OF
My father
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Early Promise | 1 |
| II. | The Morning of Life | 19 |
| III. | The New Path | 30 |
| IV. | Heroic Symphony | 40 |
| V. | Fidelio | 46 |
| VI. | The Eternal Feminine | 58 |
| VII. | Victory from Defeat | 73 |
| VIII. | Meeting with Goethe | 80 |
| IX. | Optimistic Trend | 93 |
| X. | At the Zenith of His Fame | 102 |
| XI. | Methods of Composition | 119 |
| XII. | Sense of Humor | 132 |
| XIII. | Missa Solemnis | 143 |
| XIV. | Ninth Symphony | 162 |
| XV. | Capacity for Friendship | 174 |
| XVI. | The Day's Trials | 184 |
| XVII. | Last Quartets | 191 |
| XVIII. | In the Shadows | 203 |
| XIX. | Life's Purport | 216 |
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WAGNER'S INDEBTEDNESS TO BEETHOVEN
|
224 | |
| INDEX | 237 | |
BEETHOVEN
CHAPTER I
EARLY PROMISE
God acts upon earth only by means of superior chosen men.
—Herder: Ideas Toward a History of Mankind.
s life broadens with advancing culture, and people are able to appropriate to themselves more of the various forms of art, the artist himself attains to greater power, his abilities increase in direct ratio with the progress in culture made by the people and their ability to comprehend him. When one side or phase of an art comes to be received, new and more difficult problems are invariably presented, the elucidation of which can only be effected by a higher development of the faculties.