New Beethoven Letters

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.

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.

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Published in 1866, this two-volume collection of letters in English translation illuminates the character and preoccupations of a musical genius.

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