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Beethoven - The First Biography (Paperback)
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Beethoven - The First Biography (Paperback)
Series: Amadeus
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Eine Biographie appeared in Prague a few
months after the composer's death, thirteen years before the next
biography of Beethoven would appear. Virtually nothing is known
about the author, Johann Aloys Schlosser, except that he was born
in the small town of Lann, in Bohemia, around 1790 and was a
partner in a publishing firm in Prague from 1827-28, at which time
he published this first brief biography of Beethoven. Many writers
have pointed out the flaws in Schlosser's "biography". The purpose
of the present edition is not to provide a clear and vivid picture
of Beethoven's life, but to enable English-speaking readers to
judge Schlosser's book for themselves rather than relying on
secondhand criticisms, and to illuminate what was known and
believed in Vienna and Prague in 1827 - not only about Beethoven
but about his relationship to Haydn and Mozart, and to the music of
Bach and Handel. Copious annotations and an introductory essay by
the eminent Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper put Schlosser's text
into perspective and clarify inaccuracies in the original text.
Available for the first time in English, Schlosser's first
biography of Beethoven substantially enriches our understanding of
the attitudes of Beethoven's contemporaries and fills an important
gap in Beethoven scholarship.
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