Beethoven's Lives will be required reading for anyone interested in
understanding how Beethoven biography has evolved through the ages.
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in March 1827, the world of music
felt an intense loss. The composer's funeral procession was one of
the largest Vienna had ever witnessed, and the poet Franz
Grillparzer's eulogy brought the tensions between the composer's
life and music into sharp focus: the deaf and aloof genius, the
alienated and eccentric artist, unable to form a lasting
relationship with a woman but reaching out to mankind. These
apparent contradictionswere to attract many Beethoven biographers
yet to come. Here, Lewis Lockwood, himself a much-lauded Beethoven
biographer, tells the story of Beethoven biography, from the
earliest attempts made directly after the composer's death to the
present day. Beethoven's Lives casts a wide net, tracing the story
of Beethoven biography from Anton Schindler as biographer and
falsifier, through the authoritative Alexander Wheelock Thayer and
down tothe present. The list includes Gustav Nottebohm, the first
scholar to study Beethoven's sketchbooks. With his work, biography
could begin to reflect on the inner life of the artist as expressed
in his music, and in this sense, sketchbooks could be seen as
artistic diaries. Even Richard Wagner thought of writing a
Beethoven biography, and the late nineteenth and early twentieth
century saw the emergence of French and English traditions of
Beethoven biography. In the tumultuous twentieth century, with
world wars and fractured politics, the writing of Beethoven
biography was sometimes caught up in the storm. By bringing the
story down to our time, Lewis Lockwood identifiestraditions of
Beethoven biography that today's scholars and writers need to be
aware of. As Lockwood shows, each biography reflects not only on
the individual writer's knowledge and interests, but also his inner
sense of purposeas each writer works within the intellectual
framework of his time. LEWIS H. LOCKWOOD is one of the leading
authorities on Beethoven worldwide. Having taught at Princeton and
Harvard, some of his key Beethoven publications include: Beethoven:
The Music and the Life (Norton, 2003; translated into many
languages), as well as Beethoven's Symphonies: An Artistic Vision
(Norton, 2015) and with the Julliard String Quartet: Inside
Beethoven'sQuartets: History, Performance, Interpretation (Harvard
University Press, 2008). He is known for his studies of Beethoven's
life and work, including the composer's autograph manuscripts and
sketchbooks.
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