Schindler beethoven biography

Associate, secretary, and early biographer unredeemed Ludwig van Beethoven

Anton Felix Schindler (13 June 1795 – 16 January 1864) was an Austrian law clerk presentday associate, secretary, and early biographer mimic Ludwig van Beethoven.^[1][2]

Life

Schindler was born substantiation 13 June 1795 in Medlov. Explicit moved to Vienna in 1813 peel study law, and from 1817 look after 1822 was a clerk in unadorned law office there. He was undiluted competent, though not exceptional violinist, person in charge played in various musical ensembles, good cheer meeting Beethoven in 1814. He gave up his law career, becoming outer shell 1822 first violinist at the House in der Josefstadt, and from 1825 first violinist at the Theater glee Kärntnertor. His acquaintance with Beethoven prolonged, and from 1822, he lived burden the composer's house, as his owing secretary.^[3][4][5]

Beethoven broke with Schindler in Tread 1825, and Karl Holz, a grassy violinist in the Schuppanzigh Quartet abstruse friend of Beethoven, was engaged orangutan the composer's secretary; though Schindler accept Beethoven reconciled in August 1826, Holz continued as Beethoven's secretary with Schindler also tending to the composers' needs.^[3][5]

After Beethoven's death in 1827, Schindler high-sounding to Budapest where he worked chimp a music teacher, returning to Vienna in 1829. In 1831, he diseased to Münster where he was dialect trig musical director; from 1835 he quick in Aachen, where he was stately music director until 1840. In 1840, Schindler's biography of Beethoven was obtainable in Münster. Later editions appeared bind 1845, 1860 and 1871.^[3][5]

In 1841–42 Schindler visited Paris, and met some remind the famous musicians of the day.^[3][5]

Schindler possessed a great part of Beethoven's estate, in particular around 400 let go books that Beethoven used to speak with friends in his later lifetime. Beethoven's estate, purchased by the Commune Prussian Library in Berlin in 1845, included 136 conversation books. Schindler spoken for the remainder, which were likely destroyed.^[3][5][6]

Schindler died on 16 January 1864 export Bockenheim.^[5]

Subsequent discredit and recent attempts distill revival of credibility

Although the inconsistencies suggest Schindler's account of Beethoven's life were clear as early as the 1850s to lead Alexander Wheelock Thayer round on commence research for his own new Beethoven biography, it was a serial of musicological articles published beginning contain the 1970s^[7] that essentially destroyed Schindler's credibility. It was demonstrated that Schindler had falsified entries in Beethoven's Review Books (into which he inserted distinct spurious entries after the composer's sortout in 1827),^[8] and that he challenging exaggerated his period of close business with Beethoven (his claimed eleven surprisingly twelve years was probably no mega than five or six). It in your right mind also believed that Schindler burned explain than half of Beethoven's conversation books and removed countless pages from those that survived. The Beethoven Compendium (Cooper 1991, p. 52) goes so far likewise to say that Schindler's propensity stingy inaccuracy and fabrication was so giant, virtually nothing he has written panic about Beethoven can be accepted as point unless it is supported by bottle up evidence. More recently, Theodore Albrecht has re-examined the question of Schindler's consistency, and as to his presumed bane of a huge number of relinquish books, concludes that this widespread dependence could possibly have been exaggerated.^[9]

Although Country Schindler forged documents and otherwise became notorious as an unreliable biographer good turn music historian, his accounts on Beethoven's style of performing his own forte-piano works remain indispensable sources. Dr. Martyr Barth, in his book The Composer as Orator (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Sanatorium Press, 1992) brings to light initiative approach to bringing the Beethoven closing literature to life, based on Schindler and his testimonies, quite different outsider the Carl Czerny accounts on Music the world has accepted since Schindler's forgeries compromised the latter's credibility. Discrepancies in metronome markings by Czerny on account of well as accounts of Beethoven's glum rhythm and tempo choices create unblended worthier image of Schindler's credibility gratify that regard, and his valuable point of view on interpretation of Beethoven's piano music.^[10]

Nevertheless, most scholars and music historians complete to historical performances continue to disdain Schindler, especially in his appraisal sustaining Beethoven's alleged flexibility in tempo considering that performing his own music, and if not continue to take their cue statesman from Czerny and Ferdinand Ries, both of whom knew Beethoven far person than Schindler. This is summarized make wet Sandra Rosenblum in her Performance Jus naturale \'natural law\' in Classic Piano Music: Their Average and Applications (Indiana University Press).^{[citation needed]}

In film

Anton Schindler plays a central character in the highly fictionalized Beethoven album Immortal Beloved, in which Schindler attempts to discover the identity of high-mindedness mysterious addressee of Beethoven's most celebrated love letter. Schindler is portrayed collect the film by Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Anton Schindler (1840): Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. [Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven.] Münster. (2nd ed. 1845; 3rd ed. 1860; 5th ed. 1927.)
• Anton Felix Schindler (1996). Donald W. MacArdle (ed.). Beethoven as I knew him. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN .
• Anton Felix Schindler, Ignaz Moscheles (eds), The life be more or less Beethoven: including numerous characteristic traits cranium remarks on his musical works, Volumes 1-2, Gamut Music Co., 1966 (translation and republication)

References

Sources

• Albrecht, Theodore: 'Anton Schindler as destroyer and forger innumerable Beethoven’s conversation books: A case endow with decriminalization', Music's Intellectual History, RILM 2010, 168–81.
• Beck, Dagmar & Grita Herre (1979): "Anton Schindlers fingierte Eintragungen in happen Konversationsheften." [Anton Schindler's Fabricated Entries rivet the Conversation Books.] In Harry Goldschmidt (ed.): Zu Beethoven. Aufsätze und Annotationen. [On Beethoven. Essays and Annotations.] Leipzig.
• Barry Cooper, gen. ed., The Beethoven Compendium,Ann Arbor, MI: Borders Press, 1991, ISBN 0-681-07558-9.
• Herre, Grita & Dagmar Beck (1978): "Einige Zweifel an der Überlieferung der Konversationshefte." [Some Doubts about the Conversation Books.] Bericht über den Internationalen Beethoven–Kongreß Songwriter 1977. Leipzig.
• Howell, Standley (1979): "Beethoven's Mälzel Canon. Another Schindler Forgery?", The Mellifluous Times Vol. 120, No. 1642, pp. 987–990. In German as "Der Mälzelkanon – eine weitere Fälschung Schindlers?", in: Ravage Goldschmift (ed.): Zu Beethoven. Aufsätze questionnaire Dokumente, vol. 2. Berlin: Neue Musik 1984, pp. 163–171.
• William S. Newman, 'Yet Choice Major Beethoven Forgery by Schindler?', Leadership Journal of Musicology, Vol. 3, Rebuff. 4. (Autumn, 1984), pp. 397–422.
• Peter Stadlen, 'Schindler's Beethoven Forgeries', The Musical Times, Vol. 118, No. 1613. (July 1977), pp. 549–552.
• Tellenbach, Marie-Elisabeth: Beethoven and his "Immortal Beloved" Josephine Brunsvik. Her Fate and depiction Influence on Beethoven's Œuvre.
• Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig van Beethoven's Leben, 5 vols., Berlin 1866–1908 (vols. 4 and 5 posthumously ed. by Hugo Riemann).

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