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  1. 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. He was a competent, though not exceptional violinist, and played in various musical ensembles, first meeting Beethoven in 1814. He gave up his law career, becoming in 1822 first violinist at the Theater ...

  2. 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.

  3. 4 days ago · In January, 1823, Anton Schindler (1795–1864), a former university student and law clerk who had recently turned professional violinist as concertmaster at the theater in suburban Josephstadt, began serving as Beethoven's part-time and unpaid secretary for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions to the Missa solemnis, and soon for other functions as well.

  4. Jan 1, 1996 · For most of the last ten years of Beethoven's life, Anton Schindler was closely associated with the composer as pupil, secretary, servant, and factotum. This relationship gave him an incomparable vantage point for writing a personalized, detailed biography of the great man.In 1840 Schindler published the first, hastily written version of the biography, which was translated into English the ...

  5. Anton Felix Schindler was born in 1795 in Meedel and died in 1864 in Bockenheim (today part of Frankfurt). He moved to Vienna in 1813 to study law and philosophy at the University of Vienna. He played violin from childhood, he was competent, but not exceptional at it.

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  7. May 6, 2024 · His secretary and biographer, Anton Schindler, described the deathbed scene: “This death struggle was terrible to behold, for his general constitution, especially his chest, was gigantic. He ...

  8. Anton Schindler 375 careful notes of all that was said and done during such a session. These lessons provided him with firm standards by which he judged performances of Beethoven's works throughout his life. Although he was most certainly the kind of man who would not always know at what point mere thoroughness turns into pedantry,

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