Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
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court chapel choir and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
death/funeral, [>]
description/character, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
exile decree and, [>]–[>]
father’s debtors and, [>]
father’s inheritance and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
favorite food, [>]
marriage to Maria, [>]–[>], [>]
Max Franz regime and, [>]
money and, [>], [>], [>]
music and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
relationship with father, [>], [>], [>]
salary raise and, [>], [>]
teaching music, [>], [>]
wife’s illness/death and, [>], [>], [>]
wine business/drinking problems, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Beethoven, Johann van/Ludwig’s music
clavier and, [>]
Cologne performance (1778), [>]–[>]
discipline methods, [>]–[>], [>]
finding other teachers, [>]–[>]
goals, [>]
Mozart inspiration and, [>], [>]
parties/celebrations and, [>]–[>]
promotion, [>]–[>]
Rhineland tour (1781), [>]
son composing and, [>]–[>]
son’s age at beginning, [>]
violin/viola, [>]
Beethoven, Johanna
background/description, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
daughter of, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
death, [>]
Ludwig and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
marriage to Carl/son, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
son and (after husband’s death), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
See also Beethoven, Karl/Ludwig; Reis, Johanna
Beethoven, Karl
birth/life with parents, [>], [>], [>]
description, [>], [>]
hernia/surgery, [>]
life/death after Ludwig, [>]
military career and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
on mother, [>], [>], [>]
Schindler and, [>], [>]
Stephan von Breuning as guardian, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Beethoven, Karl/Ludwig
boarding school, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
commoner’s court/decision and, [>]–[>]
conflict with Karl’s mother, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
finances/inheritance and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Karl running away to mother, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Karl’s suicide attempt/arrest and, [>]–[>], [>]
Landrecht court/Ludwig as “nobility” and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
legal battles (Ludwig/Johanna), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
living together, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Ludwig again as co-guardian, [>]
Ludwig spying on nephew, [>]–[>], [>]
Ludwig’s deafness and, [>], [>], [>]
Ludwig’s servants and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Niemetz and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
parson’s tutoring and, [>]
reasons for Ludwig’s actions, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
relationship, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
school in Vienna (1818), [>]
visit with Johann/conflict, [>]–[>]
Beethoven, Ludwig Maria van, [>]
Beethoven, Ludwig van
1796 tour/music, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
attitudes toward aristocracy, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
attitudes toward women, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Bigot friendship and, [>]–[>]
comparisons to Haydn/Mozart, [>]
comparisons to Shakespeare, [>]–[>]
conducting style, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
descriptions, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
grandfather/grandfather’s portrait and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
“Immortal Beloved,” [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
legacy/significance, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
metronome markings, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
mistaken as tramp, [>], [>]
Napoleon and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
“new path” decision, [>]
Oberdöbling house and, [>], [>], [>], [>]
Paris move and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
patterns of falling in love, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
politics of, [>]
Prague trip/musical work, [>]–[>]
raptus/trances, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
relationship patterns/themes, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
relationship with brothers, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
religion and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
routine with visitors, [>]–[>]
rumor of noble father, [>], [>]
self-concept of nobility, [>]–[>]
sense of duty and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
solitude and, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
stories/images and music, [>]–[>]
talismans of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
trends of late music, [>]–[>]
See also specific works
Beethoven, Ludwig van, and Bonn
age fifteen–sixteen and music, [>]–[>]
birth date, [>]
childhood play, [>]–[>], [>]
composition return, [>]
court music/pay, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
early loves/women admired, [>], [>], [>], [>]
education (nonmusical), [>], [>]
first portrait, [>]
foundation/beliefs, [>]–[>]
house music vs. public concerts, [>]
leaving Bonn for Vienna, [>]–[>]
name day, [>]–[>]
piano playing expertise, [>], [>]
relationship with father, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
relationship with mother, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
reviews of first published compositions, [>]
social life (late teens), [>]–[>]
teachers, summary, [>]
See also Fischer house/surroundings; specific individuals/teachers; specific works
Beethoven, Ludwig van, and health/hearing problems
in 1797, [>]
in 1804, [>], [>], [>], [>]
in 1805, [>]
in 1817, [>]
in 1821/1822, [>], [>]
in 1825, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
in 1826/1827 illness/death, [>], [>]–[>]
alcohol and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
begging off giving lessons and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
causes and, [>], [>]
composing only and, [>], [>]
composing process, [>]–[>], [>]
conversation books and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
death of those near him and, [>]
digestive tract, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
doctors/medicine and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
ear trumpets and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
friends/family at deathbed, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
hearing problems, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Heiligenstadt Testament/letter, [>]–[>]
Heiligenstadt “vacation”/work (1802), [>], [>]–[>]
hiding deafness, [>], [>]
lead poisoning and, [>], [>], [>]
letter to Wegeler, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
liver problems, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
medicine in late 1770s/early 1800s, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
spa at Teplitz and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]
summary, [>]–[>]
telling friends of deafness, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
tinnitus, [>], [>]
travels/visit with Johann (1826), [>], [>]–[>]
winter of 1800–1801, [>], [>]–[>]
See also death of Beethoven
Beethoven, Ludwig van, and Vienna
1795 music/events, [>]
1796 tour/music, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
1797 music/events, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
1798 tour, [>]–[>]
1800 music events, [>]–[>]
1803 benefit concert, [>]–[>]
arrest/jailing, [>]
becoming composer/technique, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Beethoven’s attitude toward Vienna/Viennese, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Beethoven’s trip/move to (1792), [>], [>]–[>]
Bonn/Bonn friends and, [>]–[>], [>]
Bonn court collapse and, [>]
Congress of Vienna and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
courting (1810), [>]–[>]
early days/finances, [>]–[>], [>]
early patrons, [>]–[>]
finances/problems (1807), [>]
finances/problems (1809), [>]
finances/problems (1811), [>]
finances/problems (1812–1813), [>]–[>]
finances/problems (1814–1815), [>], [>]–[>], [>]
finances/problems (1820s), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
folk song arrangements/Thomson publisher, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
last residence, [>]–[>]
Lorchen correspondence/music dedication, [>]–[>]
marriage/wife views, [>], [>], [>], [>]
music of 1809–1810, [>]–[>]
music of revolution and, [>]–[>]
musical duels, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
opera preparations, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
piano sonatas/experimenting (1798), [>]–[>]
public debut/preparations, [>]–[>]
resolutions, [>], [>]
singers visiting/wine and (1822), [>]
sketchbook use beginnings, [>]
string instruments gift to, [>], [>], [>]
students/young female students, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]
as teacher, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
“van” in name and, [>]
Vienna at time of, [>]–[>]
war/patriotic songs, [>]
Beethoven, Ludwig van (grandfather)
becoming Kapellmeister, [>]–[>]
Belderbusch and, [>]
birth/childhood, [>]
business and, [>]
death, [>]
description/character, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
as Flemish, [>]
as godfather, [>]
home/Fischer family, [>]–[>]
as Kapellmeister, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
marriage to Maria Josepha Poll, [>], [>]
music and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
parents/siblings, [>], [>]
portrait of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
relationship with son, [>], [>]
salary/duties as Kapellmeister, [>]
as wine dealer, [>]
Beethoven, Maria Josepha (Poll)
alcoholism and, [>], [>]–[>]
marriage, [>], [>]
Beethoven, Maria Margaretha Josepha van, [>]–[>], [>]
Beethoven, Maria van (Keverich)
background, [>]–[>], [>]
Beethoven’s name day, [>]
Bonngasse house, [>], [>]
children/infants’ deaths, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
description/character, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
“dowry” and, [>]
first husband/death, [>], [>]–[>]
Frau Fischer and, [>]
health problems/death, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
home moves and, [>]
on marriage, [>], [>]–[>], [>]
mother of, [>], [>]
name day celebrations, [>]
Rovantini/Rovantini’s sister and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Beethoven, Michael van, [>]
Beethoven, (Nikolaus) Johann van
arriving in Vienna, [>]–[>]
childhood accident/abscess, [>], [>]
christening/godparents, [>]
daughter of Therese, [>]–[>]
description/character, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]
Heiligenstadt Testament/letter and, [>]–[>]
illness/Therese and daughter, [>]–[>]
Karl (nephew) and, [>], [>]
life/death after Ludwig, [>]
Ludwig and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Ludwig dying/death and, [>], [>], [>]
Ludwig’s debt to, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]
Ludwig’s visit/conflict with (in Linz), [>]–[>]
Ludwig’s visit/conflict with (Wasserhof estate), [>]–[>]
mistress/wife (Therese), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
pharmacy/French army, [>], [>]
Schindler and, [>]
Wasserhof estate and, [>], [>]
Beethoven, Therese, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Belderbusch, Caspar Anton von
Beethoven family and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Clemens August’s debt and, [>]–[>]
death, [>], [>]
Elector of Cologne and, [>]–[>]
French and, [>]
government style/Enlightenment, [>]–[>]
Max Friedrich successor/money and, [>]–[>]
music and, [>]
rumors on, [>]–[>]
theater of Electoral Residence/National Theater, [>], [>]
Bernadotte, Jean, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Bernard, Karl Joseph, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Bernhard, Frau von, [>]–[>]
Bigot, Paul/Marie, [>], [>]–[>]
bigotry (racial/ethnic) in Beethoven’s time, [>], [>]–[>]
biographies on Beethoven, [>]–[>], [>]
“biography” description, [>]–[>]
Blöchlinger, Joseph, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]
Böhm, Joseph, [>], [>]
Bonaparte, Jérôme
background, [>]–[>], [>]
Kapellmeister offer to Beethoven, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Bonaparte, Napoleon. See Napoleon Bonaparte
Bonaparte Symphony. See Eroica Symphony (Beethoven)
Bonn
Archbishop of Cologne residence and, [>]
Beethoven’s attitudes toward, [>]
Cologne and, [>]