by Suchet, John
Sonnleithner, Joseph 114, 121, 124
Sontag, Henriette 200
Spain 145, 171, 212
Spittelberg 146
Spohr, Louis 139, 171
St Goarshausen 52
St Petersburg 84, 196
Stackelberg, Baron 159
Staudenheim. Dr 245, 247, 246
Steibelt, Daniel 82–84, 93
Steiner, Sigmund Anton 211
Sterkel, Abbé 55–57
Stutterheim, Field Marshal Joseph von 227, 228
Swinburne, Henry 21
T
Tellenbach, Marie-Elisabeth 158–59
Teltscher, Joseph 252
Teplitz 153, 154, 156, 157, 158, 163–66
Teutonic Order 40, 50, 57, 58, 85
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock 59, 62, 72, 76, 89, 139, 167, 194, 234
Thun, Countess Marie Wilhelmine von 82
Treitschke, Georg Friedrich 172
Trémont, Baron de 143
Trier, Elector of 5, 6
Troppau 131, 133
U
Ulm 121
Umlauf, Michael 198, 200–2
Unger, Karoline 200
V
Victoria, Queen 260
Vienna:
Bastei xi, 147, 212, 136, 171
Beethovenplatz xii
Burgtheater 38, 68–69, 73, 75, 84, 103, 136, 139, 163, 216
Congress of 172, 174
Hofburg Palace 68, 69, 73, 144, 201
Prater 205
Schönbrunn Palace 69, 122
St Stephen’s Cathedral 68, 147
Theater an der Wien 103–4, 106, 111, 114, 119, 121, 122, 124–26, 134, 136, 137, 138, 198, 199
Theater am Kärtnertor 199–200, 205
University of 205
Woods 134
Zentralfriedhof 194, 260, 261
Vitoria, Battle of 171, 174
Vogler, Georg Joseph 59
W
Wagner, Dr Johann 255–56
Wagner, Richard 47, 54
Währing 257, 260
Waldburg-Capustigall, Count Friedrich Ludwig 136
Walden, Edward 158
Waldendorf, Baroness von 19
Waldmüller, Ferdinand 207
Waldstein, Count 40, 42, 43, 47–48, 57, 60, 61, 64, 71, 113
Walkersdorf 148, 149
Walsegg, Count 47
Wawruch, Dr Andreas 246–51
Wegeler, Franz 33–35, 38, 40, 49, 60–63, 72, 73, 76, 78, 85–87, 94, 148, 243, 245
Weigl, Robert 135
Weimar 251
Weissenbach, Alois 174
Wellesley, Arthur 145, 171, 174
Westerholt, Fräulein von 62
Westphalia 136
Wiener Neustadt 194, 195
Willman, Magdalena 76
Z
Zmeskall, Nikolaus 78, 81, 170, 201, 250
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It was Darren Henley, Managing Director of Classic FM, who picked up the telephone in the summer of 2010 and gave me a new career in radio. And it was Darren who, when I told him I had embarked on a biography of Beethoven, said immediately he wanted it to be a Classic FM publication.
He introduced me to Lorne Forsyth, Chairman of Elliott & Thompson, Classic FM’s publisher, and Olivia Bays, Publisher at Elliott & Thompson. Both were excited at the prospect of a new, full-length biography of the great artist, and encouraged me from our first meeting.
Olivia was a knowledgeable and sympathetic editor, infinitely patient with my corrections and amendments, and long suffering to a fault with the many changes of mind over the front cover. She is one of the few people I have ever worked with who responds as rapidly to emails as I do myself – exactly what a writer with more than forty years of journalism behind him is used to and needs.
I am grateful to Jennie Condell and James Collins at Elliott & Thompson for tracking down all the illustrations I asked for, and for making my own photographs look far more professional than they originally were.
The most important Beethoven research centre outside Europe is the American Beethoven Society at San José State University in California. I have been a member for many years. I have lauded the efficiency and dedication of the Society in previous publications on Beethoven. I once needed the words to an obscure musical jest by Beethoven. It was on my fax from San José within twenty four hours. My grateful thanks, once again, to Director William Meredith and Curator Patricia Stroh.
Thanks too to Boris Goyke at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, and Marian Hochel, Director of Chateau Duchcov-Dux in the Czech Republic, for their help in tracking down rare material.
Finally – and most importantly, for without her encouragement from the day I first said I was undertaking this enormous project, I might have fallen at the first of many hurdles – my eternal thanks to Nula.
PICTURE CREDITS
On the jacket: Franz Klein bust from Beethoven-Haus Bonn; Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 101, Allegro, from the Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington, D.C.
Page ix: akg-images/Erich Lessing
Page xii: © iStockPhoto.com/Xiaoping Liang
Page 4:© Alfredo Dagli Orti/The Art Archive/Corbis
Page 6: (left) akg-images; (right) © Bettmann/Corbis
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Pages 20–21: © Xiong Wei/Shutterstock
Page 41: John Suchet (both images)
Page 42: Courtesy of Chateau Duchcov-Dux/National Heritage Institut, Czech Republic. Photograph by Marta Pavlikova, 2012
Pages 52–53: John Suchet (all images)
Page 57: © Luciano Morpurgo/Shutterstock
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