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Anton Felix Schindler (13 June 1795 – 16 January 1864) was an Austrian law clerk and associate, secretary, and early biographer of Ludwig van Beethoven. [1] [2] Life. Schindler was born on 13 June 1795 in Medlov. He moved to Vienna in 1813 to study law, and from 1817 to 1822 was a clerk in a law office there.
Anton Schindler (1795-1864): Beethoven's first biographer. All Beethoven scholars have reason to be grateful to Schindler - and angry with him - in equal measure. Schindler was a violinist who introduced himself into Beethoven's circle in about 1822. He made himself indispensable to Beethoven, who was by now totally deaf.
The first written authentic evidence of this kind of relationship is from June 1822, a letter from Beethoven to Schindler. What is the ‘sin’ of Anton Schindler? In short: Schindler forged history, destroyed evidence and based a career on the short relationship he had with Beethoven!
Mar 10, 2012 · Author. Schindler, Anton, 1795-1864. Editor. Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870. LoC No. 06004819. Title. Life of Beethoven. Including his correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works.
- Schindler, Anton, 1795-1864
- English
- Moscheles, Ignaz, 1794-1870
- 06004819
Anton Schindler, intimately associated with Beethoven from about 1820, is the one author who could appropriately have written this book. His 1860 volume is here offered for the first time in an extensively annotated edition by the late American Beethoven scholar Donald W. MacArdle. In this translation, the text remains almost as Schindler wrote ...
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Jan 1, 1996 · Extensively annotated by Beethoven scholar Donald W. MacArdle, this edition of the biography offers not only Schindler's intimate view of the composer his music, how he was viewed by his...
You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license Title: Life of Beethoven Author: Anton Schindler Editor: Ignace Moscheles Release Date: March 10, 2012 [EBook #39093] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS ...
