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The biography traces the composer's life from modest musical beginnings, family influences, and early prodigious talent through mentorships and formative studies to rising fame and the creative struggles that accompanied progressive deafness. It follows the composition and significance of major works—early sonatas and operatic efforts, the Eroica and Fidelio, the Pastorale and Seventh symphonies, the Missa Solemnis and Ninth, and the late string quartets—while examining his personality, moral seriousness, financial and personal trials, artistic methods, and the conviction that his lived sacrifices informed the moral and expressive power of his music.

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Title: Life of Beethoven

Author: Ludwig Nohl

Translator: John J. Lalor

Release date: January 3, 2023 [eBook #69693]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: Janse, McClurg & Company, 1880

Credits: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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Ludwig Van Beethoven.

BIOGRAPHIES OF MUSICIANS.


Life of Beethoven

BY
LOUIS NOHL

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY
JOHN J. LALOR.


Our age has need of vigorous minds.


CHICAGO:
JANSEN, McCLURG & COMPANY.
1881.