item: #1 of 9 id: 13065 author: Beethoven, Ludwig van title: Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 date: None words: 59107 flesch: 77 summary: As to the future system of education, I can at all events congratulate myself on having done all that I could possibly effect at present _for the best_, and trust _that the future may be in accordance with it_. Do you mean to go post-haste to the devil, gentlemen, by proposing that I should write _such_ a _sonata_? keywords: able; accordance; account; affair; age; answer; april; archduke; archduke rudolph; arrangement; art; artist; assured; august; author; baden; baron; battle; beethoven; benefit; berlin; best; birchall; bonn; breuning; brother; care; carl; cause; celebrated; certain; chance; character; child; chorus; circumstances; claim; close; come; compositions; concert; condition; conduct; consideration; cost; count; country; course; currency; date; day; days; deal; dear; dear friend; death; december; dedicated; dedication; degree; del; desire; direct; disposed; doubt; ducats; early; edition; effect; einlösung; engraved; esteem; esteemed; evening; events; express; eyes; fact; fail; faithful; family; farewell; father; favor; favorable; feb; feelings; ferdinand; fidelio; florins; following; footnote; frau; friend; friendly; friendship; future; general; giving; glad; goethe; gold; good; gracious; 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regard; request; require; respect; result; return; ries; rio; royal; rudolph; salary; schein; schindler; schuppanzigh; score; second; self; sense; septet; servant; service; share; short; sincere; society; sonata; spirit; state; subject; sum; symphony; talents; testimony; thanks; theatre; things; think; thought; time; true; trust; töplitz; usual; value; van; van beethoven; varenna; variations; vienna; view; violin; violoncello; von; vous; way; week; wegeler; wellington; wife; wish; wishes; works; world; worse; worthy; writing; y.r.h; year; yesterday; zmeskall cache: 13065.txt plain text: 13065.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 13272 author: Beethoven, Ludwig van title: Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 2 date: None words: 61908 flesch: 78 summary: The question now is whether Y.R.H. _is satisfied with the title_. the occasion of this note is thus related:--In 1825, a well-known artist and _dilettante_ in the composition of music published a book of waltzes, each of these being composed by the most popular and celebrated musicians of the day; as no one declined giving a musical contribution to the editor, the profits being intended to enable him to go to Carlsbad for the benefit of the waters there. keywords: able; account; address; admirer; affair; afternoon; alles; answer; application; april; archduke; archduke rudolph; artaria; attached; august; austrian; aware; baden; baron; bass; beethoven; benefit; berlin; best; biography; bonn; book; boy; breuning; brother; business; c.m; canon; care; carl; case; celebrated; certain; child; circumstances; clef; close; co.; coming; composer; composition; concert; condition; conduct; consideration; copies; copy; copyist; cost; country; course; court; czerny; daily; day; days; deal; dear; dedicated; del; delay; desire; diabelli; different; director; distinguished; doubt; dresden; ducats; duty; early; editor; education; effect; english; esteem; esteemed; evening; events; eyes; fact; fail; faithful; family; far; farewell; father; favor; favorite; february; feeling; flat; florins; following; footnote; frau; friend; general; glad; god; going; good; gracious; grand; gratitude; great; greater; greatest; guardian; guardianship; h.r.h; half; hand; hard; haslinger; haste; health; heart; heaven; herr; hetzendorf; high; hitherto; holz; home; honor; hope; hour; house; housekeeper; ill; illustrious; imperial; influence; intention; interest; johann; july; june; kapellmeister; kind; kindly; kindness; king; known; later; lau; law; leave; left; leipzig; length; letter; life; little; lodging; london; long; look; love; ludwig; maestro; majesty; major; man; manner; march; mass; matter; mean; member; minor; mode; moment; money; month; morrow; moscheles; mother; mozart; music; musical; necessary; need; nephew; new; noble; notes; o'clock; obedient; obedient beethoven; object; occasion; offer; office; old; opera; opinion; opportunity; orchestra; order; overture; p.s; paper; parts; past; people; performance; person; peters; philharmonic; pianoforte; place; pleasure; poet; point; poor; possible; post; power; present; prince; proof; proposal; publisher; pupil; purpose; quartet; quintet; ready; receipt; regard; regret; rejoice; request; residence; respect; result; return; ries; right; rio; room; royal; rudolph; sake; saturday; saxony; schindler; schlemmer; schlesinger; schott; score; second; september; servant; service; set; short; sincere; sir; smart; society; sole; son; sonata; songs; state; steiner; streicher; style; subject; sum; summer; sunday; symphony; thank; theatre; things; time; time beethoven; tobias; town; treble; trouble; true; trust; usual; van; van beethoven; variations; vienna; violin; violoncello; visit; von; vous; want; way; weber; welfare; wife; winter; wish; wishes; woman; words; work; world; worthy; write; writing; y.r.h; year; yesterday; young; zeitung; zmeskall cache: 13272.txt plain text: 13272.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 15141 author: Fischer, George Alexander title: Beethoven, a character study Together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven date: None words: 68080 flesch: 67 summary: Like most men of genius Beethoven had little regard for money, and until middle age was reached, never thought of saving any. As before stated Beethoven did not take to teaching. keywords: ability; able; account; achievement; acquaintance; advance; afterward; age; aid; air; answer; apparent; appearance; april; archduke; art; artist; artistic; atmosphere; attention; audience; austria; bach; bad; baron; battle; beautiful; beethoven; beginning; benefit; berlin; best; bonn; books; boy; brain; breuning; brother; brunswick; business; calls; career; case; certain; chamber; chapter; character; characteristic; chief; choral; church; circumstances; city; class; common; company; complete; composer; composing; composition; concert; conditions; connection; consciousness; consideration; conversation; count; countess; country; course; creative; czerny; dance; daughter; day; days; deafness; dear; death; dedicated; deep; degree; desire; development; devotion; different; difficult; distinguished; doubt; drama; early; earnest; easy; effect; effort; elector; element; emperor; engaged; english; enjoyment; entire; equal; europe; evening; event; exercise; existence; experience; expression; extent; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; fame; family; famous; fate; father; favor; ferdinand; fidelio; fine; finished; following; force; form; france; french; friendly; friends; friendship; fugue; future; general; genius; german; god; goethe; good; grand; great; great work; greater; greatest; habit; half; hand; happiness; hard; haydn; head; health; heart; higher; highest; holz; home; honor; house; humanity; humor; händel; idea; imperial; important; improvising; incident; income; influence; instance; intellectual; interested; interesting; intimate; italian; johann; joy; karl; kind; king; knowledge; known; krumpholz; kyrie; language; large; later; lead; left; lessons; letter; libretto; lichnowsky; life; light; like; likely; liszt; literary; literature; little; living; lobkowitz; london; long; longer; love; ludwig; madame; man; mankind; manner; manuscript; march; marie; marriage; married; mass; masses; master; matters; means; meeting; men; mental; mention; middle; mind; minor; mode; money; months; mood; morning; mother; movement; mozart; music; musical; musician; mysticism; napoleon; nature; near; necessary; nephew; new; ninth; note; object; occasion; old; opera; operatic; opinion; opus; oratorio; orchestra; order; original; originality; overture; particular; parts; passing; passion; past; pastoral; people; performance; performer; period; person; piano; pictures; place; play; playing; pleasure; poet; point; portion; possession; possible; post; powers; present; previous; prince; princess; problem; product; production; progress; project; prominent; public; publishers; pupil; purpose; qualities; quartets; question; ready; regard; relations; religion; religious; remark; requiem; result; return; ries; room; rudolph; sacred; scene; schiller; schindler; schubert; second; sense; servants; set; seventh; shakespeare; short; sie; significance; simple; situation; sketch; small; social; society; sonata; song; soul; spiritual; stage; states; stephen; storm; strong; studies; study; style; subject; success; sufficient; summer; symphonies; symphony; talent; task; teacher; teaching; temperament; terms; theatre; therese; things; thought; time; tone; trouble; true; unable; uncle; und; value; van beethoven; variations; victory; vienna; view; violin; visit; von; wagner; waldstein; way; ways; wife; words; work; world; writing; years; young; youth; zmeskall cache: 15141.txt plain text: 15141.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 18138 author: Kobbé, Gustav title: The Loves of Great Composers date: None words: 25618 flesch: 70 summary: Frontispiece Mozart at the Age of Eleven Constance, Wife of Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Countess Therese von Brunswick Beethoven at Heiligenstadt Félix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Fanny Hensel, Sister of Mendelssohn Cécile, Wife of Mendelssohn The Mendelssohn Monument in Leipsic Frédéric Chopin [missing from book] Countess Potocka The Death of Chopin Robert Schumann Robert and Clara Schumann, in 1847 Clara Schumann at the Piano The Schumann Monument in the Bonn Cemetery Franz Liszt Liszt at the Piano The Princess Carolyne, in her Latter Years at Rome The Altenburg, Weimar, where Liszt and Carolyne lived Richard Wagner Cosima, Wife of Wagner Richard and Cosima Wagner Richard and Cosima Wagner entertaining in their Home Wahnfried, Liszt and Hans von Wolzogen Mozart and His Constance Nearly eight years after Mozart's death his widow, in response to a request from a famous publishing house for relics of the composer, sent, among other Mozartiana, a packet of letters written to her by her husband. When Liszt was producing Lohengrin, aiding Wagner pecuniarily, and cheering him in his exile, Cosima Liszt was a young girl in Paris, where she, her elder sister Blandine (afterward the wife of Emile Ollivier, who became the war minister of Napoleon the Third) and her brother Daniel lived with Liszt's mother. keywords: able; aid; aloysia; altenburg; angel; answer; artistic; bayreuth; beautiful; beauty; beethoven; beloved; berlin; best; bonn; brilliant; brother; brunswick; bülow; caecilia; career; carolyne; case; charming; child; children; choice; chopin; church; clara; composer; concert; constance; continued; correspondence; cosima; countess; course; cécile; daughter; day; death; decided; delicate; delphine; devotion; early; evening; eyes; face; fact; faithful; family; famous; fanny; father; favorite; feelings; felix; figure; find; fingers; following; frankfort; franz; frau; french; friend; future; genius; girl; good; grave; great; hand; happiness; happy; head; health; heart; home; hours; house; household; husband; illustration; immortal; influence; intellectual; intimate; known; later; left; leipsic; letter; life; like; liszt; literary; little; long; love; manner; mannheim; marriage; married; meeting; mendelssohn; mere; mind; minna; miriam; mme; moment; mother; mozart; music; musical; musician; nature; near; new; old; open; opera; order; paris; people; period; person; pianist; piano; picture; place; play; portrait; potocka; presence; princess; promise; public; pupil; rare; refined; relations; request; rest; return; richard; robert; rome; room; rôle; sad; salon; salzburg; schumann; second; set; sister; son; sonata; sorrow; soul; state; story; success; tastes; tender; therese; time; tour; true; vienna; view; visit; voice; von; wagner; way; weber; weimar; widow; wieck; wife; woman; wonderful; words; work; world; writing; years; young cache: 18138.txt plain text: 18138.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 27502 author: Ball, Thomas Hanly title: Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 date: None words: 15868 flesch: 71 summary: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Beethoven, like most great men, had many peculiarities. keywords: agreeable; air; ancient; anthems; april; audience; august; author; beethoven; best; bettine; blind; britton; cannons; chandos; chapel; character; chorus; classes; club; company; composer; composition; coronation; court; daily; dark; day; days; death; divine; duke; earth; elector; end; england; expense; expression; extraordinary; eyes; far; father; feeling; following; footnote; gardens; genius; george; girl; god; good; grand; great; greatest; hall; handel; happy; harmony; haydyn; heart; history; home; hope; hospital; house; human; influence; instrument; italy; journey; joy; labour; lady; lectures; life; light; little; london; long; lord; love; magnificent; man; manner; mansion; marble; master; means; meetings; melody; men; messiah; milton; mind; mother; mozart; music; musical; musicians; native; natural; nature; new; nobility; noble; note; objects; old; opera; oratorio; organist; people; pepusch; performance; performer; period; piece; place; pleasure; poor; power; praise; present; return; room; shakespeare; short; sketch; small; society; song; soul; sounds; source; spirit; statue; street; style; sublime; sun; sweet; tell; thou; time; town; true; tune; vauxhall; village; visit; voice; wimbledon; words; work; world; years; young cache: 27502.txt plain text: 27502.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 34737 author: Tapper, Thomas title: Beethoven : The story of a little boy who was forced to practice date: None words: 2608 flesch: 85 summary: [Illustration: No. 8 JOSEPH HAYDN] Everywhere in Vienna Beethoven was a welcome guest. The Story of a Little Boy who was Forced to Practice Ludwig van Beethoven was born in the lovely town of Bonn, on the River Rhine, December 16, 1770. keywords: beethoven; bonn; book; boy; child; day; father; great; haydn; illustration; lessons; little; ludwig; mother; mozart; music; old; outside; picture; practice; school; story; vienna; years cache: 34737.txt plain text: 34737.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 37996 author: Graeme, Elliott title: Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) date: None words: 53466 flesch: 70 summary: Seyfried, in fact, seems to have gone to work with incredible recklessness; his Beethoven's Studies is an _Olla Podrida_, composed of not only Beethoven's own exercises (put together without regard to natural sequence or chronology), but of another theoretical course, probably that prepared by Beethoven years after for the instruction of the Archduke Rudolph; while a third element is actually introduced in the shape of Studies from a MS. The following letters to Wegeler display, more fully than we can describe, Beethoven's condition during the first few years of his calamity:-- _Vienna, 29th June_, (1801.) keywords: able; account; acquaintance; addition; age; air; albrechtsberger; appearance; appointment; archbishop; archduke; art; artist; artistic; assistance; attempt; attention; august; author; bach; bad; baron; bass; battle; beautiful; beethoven; berlin; best; better; bonn; book; boy; breathe; breuning; brilliant; brothers; c major; calm; capital; care; carl; case; cast; century; certain; change; chapter; character; child; children; chorus; cologne; company; composer; composing; composition; concert; conduct; consideration; contrast; countess; country; course; court; day; days; deafness; dear; dearest; death; ded; deep; degree; delight; demands; description; desire; development; different; difficult; difficulties; divine; early; earnest; easy; education; effect; efforts; eleanore; elector; electoral; emperor; england; evening; existence; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; fact; family; fantasia; far; farewell; fate; father; favourite; feeling; ferdinand; finished; flat; flat major; following; footnote; form; fourth; franz; free; freedom; french; fresh; friend; friendly; friendship; fugue; future; general; genius; german; giving; god; goethe; good; graeme; grand; great; greater; greatest; half; hand; handel; happiness; happy; hard; haydn; head; health; hearing; heart; help; herr; high; higher; highest; highness; home; hope; hours; house; human; hummel; idea; illustration; immense; impossible; influence; instance; instruction; instruments; intellectual; interest; italian; johann; journey; joy; kapellmeister; kind; knowledge; known; language; later; law; left; length; leonora; letters; lichnowski; life; light; like; little; lobkowitz; london; long; loss; love; ludwig; madame; major; making; man; manner; march; mass; master; max; means; melodies; men; mere; mind; minor; miserable; moment; money; months; morning; mother; mozart; music; musical; musician; national; natural; nature; necessary; neefe; nephew; new; noble; noblest; notice; nottebohm; number; occasion; occurrence; old; open; opera; opinion; orchestra; order; ordinary; organist; original; overture; past; patron; peculiar; people; perfect; performance; period; piano; pianoforte; place; play; playing; pleasure; poet; point; possession; post; power; present; pretty; prince; princess; private; proof; proud; pub; public; pupil; pure; quartet; question; reader; ready; real; reality; reason; received; regard; relation; remembrance; residence; result; return; ries; rudolph; salary; satisfied; schenk; schiller; schindler; school; second; self; sense; sensitive; service; set; seyfried; short; simple; singers; small; society; sonata; songs; soul; sound; spirit; state; steibelt; stephan; story; striving; student; studies; study; style; subject; success; suffering; summer; symphonies; symphony; talent; task; technical; thayer; theatre; theme; things; thorough; thought; time; time beethoven; tone; town; trio; true; truth; uncle; van beethoven; variations; vienna; view; viola; violin; violoncello; visit; voice; von; waldstein; want; way; wegeler; wife; wish; woman; works; world; worthy; writing; years; young; youth cache: 37996.txt plain text: 37996.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 39093 author: Schindler, Anton title: Life of Beethoven Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works date: None words: 120992 flesch: 67 summary: for, Heaven be praised, Beethoven _can_ write, although he can do nothing else. At last Beethoven himself joined the chorus, on looking at the waiter, who was licking in with his tongue the stream of gravy which, much as he fought against it, hindered him from uttering any more invectives; the evolutions of his tongue causing the most absurd grimaces. keywords: 1827; 1st; abilities; able; accompaniments; account; accustomed; acknowledged; acquaintance; adagio; admiration; admirers; adopted; advice; affair; affection; air; allegro; amiable; andante; anecdotes; answer; appearance; appointment; april; archduke; arnim; arrangement; art; artaria; artist; assistance; attention; austria; author; autumn; avail; aware; bach; bad; baden; band; baron; bars; bass; battle; bear; beautiful; beethoven; beethoven studien; beginning; beloved; benefit; berlin; best; bettine; biography; birth; body; bonn; book; boy; breuning; brother; business; cantata; capable; care; carl; case; causes; celebrated; certain; change; character; characteristic; child; chorus; church; circumstances; city; 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presence; present; prices; prince; principal; principle; private; produce; productions; professional; professor; profit; proof; property; public; publication; publisher; publishing; pupil; pure; purpose; quarter; quartett; question; quintett; rapid; reader; ready; real; reason; recollection; reference; regard; related; relative; remarkable; remarks; request; residence; respect; results; return; ries; right; rochlitz; room; rudolph; sale; satisfied; saying; schindler; school; schuppanzigh; score; second; seen; self; sense; septett; service; set; severe; seyfried; share; short; signs; similar; sincere; singers; single; sir; sister; situation; sketches; small; smart; society; solo; sonata; songs; soul; spirit; spring; stand; state; statements; stay; stephen; street; striking; studies; study; style; subject; sublime; success; sufferings; sufficient; suit; sum; summer; supplement; surprised; symbol; symphonies; symphony; talent; task; taste; tempo; tenor; terms; thanks; theater; theatre; thee; things; think; thought; time; time beethoven; title; tone; town; treatment; trick; trio; trouble; true; truth; understood; undertaking; unpleasant; unworthy; usual; vain; value; van beethoven; variations; venture; vexation; vienna; view; violin; violoncello; visit; vittoria; vocal; voice; vol; volume; von; votre; vous; want; way; weber; weeks; wegeler; wife; winter; wish; wished; works; works beethoven; world; worthy; write; writing; wrong; years; yesterday; young; young beethoven; youth cache: 39093.txt plain text: 39093.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 59672 author: Byron, May title: A Day with Ludwig Beethoven date: None words: 6470 flesch: 67 summary: But one thing I ask of Thee, my God--not to cease Thy work in my improvement ... Let me tend towards Thee, no matter by what means--and be fruitful in good works.... And Ludwig van Beethoven had a means of communing fearlessly with his Creator, which, for him, was perhaps, as direct a road as prayer, if _laborare est orare_. Beethoven, in his various migrations from lodging to lodging--and they were very numerous, and inspired by the most trivial causes--always endeavoured to select an airy, sunshiny spot, where he could at least feel the country air blowing to him, and so keep in touch with his beloved green fields. keywords: -------------------------------------------------------------------[illustration; adélaide; air; beethoven; beloved; best; brain; composer; composing; compositions; course; day; deafness; divine; early; english; englishman; evening; eyes; favourite; fields; forms; friends; god; good; great; hands; happiness; hard; heart; heavenly; highest; house; inner; joy; land; life; light; like; little; long; longing; love; ludwig; man; master; men; mind; minor; moment; morning; music; nature; neate; necessity; note; open; period; pianoforte; play; power; pure; quartet; rapture; rough; set; shakespeare; sharp; sonata; spark; sweet; symphony; thee; thick; things; thou; thoughts; time; true; van; vocal; wagner; water; way; words; work; world; young cache: 59672.txt plain text: 59672.txt