Identifier: beethovencritica00indy (find matches)
Title: Beethoven; a critical biography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Indy, Vincent d', 1851-1931
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Publisher: Boston, Mass., The Boston music company New York, G. Schirmer
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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onstructions in which recall those employed by K.Stamitz, Cannabich, and other musicians of the second rankbelonging to the Mannheim school. ^Only from to-dayonward, declares Beethoven to a friend, do I begin toknow how to write a quartet. With regard to the symphony he exercised equal reserve.Though familiar through early study with the art of instru-mentation, it Avas only after long delay that he approachedthe composition of a symphony; and yet this first attempt,despite the amazement or the protestations of his contem-poraries concerning the strangeness of the first measure,can in truth be viewed by us as merely an adroit imitationof Haydns last works of this kind.* And now let us leave Beethoven, the pupil of genius, (butwho, for all that, is as yet a good pupil,) to welcome upon * It is to this First Period that we must relegate the unpublishedsymphony about which the University of Jena has been making sucha pother, and whose genuineness has by no means been demonstrated. ( 24 )
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BEETHOVEN, AGED TWENTY-SIX (1796) Design by G. Stainhauser; engraving by J. Neidl, executed for thepublisher Artaria LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN the scene, with the year 1801, a different and entirely recon-stituted Beethoven. How was this transformation achieved? To what causescan we attribute it? These are questions to be taken up inthe musical part of the following chapter. 25 THE SECOND PERIOD Fkom 1801 TO 1815 IIIHIS LIFE The generosity displayed towards the youthful Beethovenby the noblemen of Vienna, has received no adequate recog-nition. The Lichnowsky family alone subscribed for thirty-two copies of the trios, Op. 1. Prince Carl presided at therehearsals of new works. The story goes that at the inter-minable rehearsal of Christ on the Mount of Olives the princehad lavish distribution made of refreshments, all sorts ofcold meats, etc., to the members of orchestra and chorus,in order to restrain their impatience. — It was a seriousmatter when Fidelio was taken in hand; there was a c

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