Beethoven Letters Journals And Conversations

Comments by contemporaries depict the composer's music and personality and accompany selections from his letters to friends and other artists

Features 457 letters to fellow musicians, friends, greats, patrons, and literary men. Reveals musical thoughts, quirks of personality, insights, and daily events. Includes 15 plates.

Published in 1909, this two-volume collection of Beethoven's letters in English translation contains more than a thousand examples.

Containing nearly five hundred items, this volume is a collection of all known writings of Ludwig van Beethoven (other than notations in Conversation Books and Journals) which did not appear in previous editions. The careful annotations give pertinent bibliographical information and sketch the background and circumstances of the letters. Thus the volume makes conveniently available the rich store of biographical and musical information in the letters, receipts, newspaper notices, and the like reproduced here.

A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time, covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call late Beethoven.