Autograph Letter Signed From Beethoven To B Schotts Sohne Dated Nov 16 1824 Brandenburg No 1897
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| Author | : Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Total Pages | : 2 |
| Release | : 1824 |
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Exhibit text: Many of Beethoven’s surviving letters were written to his publishers, who, being professional businessmen, preserved them carefully. The Schott publishing firm was one of Beethoven’s most important publishers. Founded in Mainz, Germany, by Bernhard Schott (1748-1809), the firm continued by his sons Johann Andreas Schott (1781-1840) and Johann Joseph Schott (1782-1855) after his death. The firm’s association with Beethoven date back to the composer’s years in Bonn, which makes sense as Mainz, like Bonn, is on the Rhine River and only seventy miles from Bonn. In 1791 the firm published the twenty-year-old composer’s Variations for Fortepiano on Righini’s Arietta U+0032Venni amore,U+0033 WoO 65. The brothers did not have contact with Beethoven after he moved to Vienna until 1824, when they wrote the composer to express their desire to publish his latest works. On March 11, 1824, Beethoven offered them the Missa solemnis (described as U+0032my greatest workU+0033 in the letter), the Ninth Symphony, and a new string quartet (the late quartet in E-Major, Opus 127). At the letter’s close he explains: U+0032when dealing with these proceedings, do not judge me a businessman, I am not permitted to despise competition [between publishers] even though I am a true artist, by earning money I am able to work faithfully for my muses and am able to provide for very many people in a noble manner—U+0033
| Author | : Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Total Pages | : 2 |
| Release | : 1817 |
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Exhibit text: This letter documents the warm feelings that Beethoven continued to feel for the family of Franz and Antonie Brentano long after they had moved back to Frankfurt from Vienna in 1812. According to some sources, Antonie (1780-1869) first met Beethoven at some point in the 1790s while living with her parents in Vienna. In 1806 she married Franz and moved to Frankfurt. Three years later her father became very ill, and she returned to Vienna to spend the last few weeks of his life with him. She remained until 1812 to complete the complicated task of settling his estate. During the years 1810-12, she and her family became close to the composer. Beethoven visited them, attended concerts at their home, played for them, and played with their children. Because she was often ill, Beethoven used to come and improvise for her in her anteroom to, in Antonie's words, U+0032tell me everything and offer me comfort.U+0033 In 1819 Antonie described Beethoven as U+0032guileless, straightforward, wise, and wholly benevolent.U+0033 Beethoven begins the letter by stating that he had sent several of his musical works to them U+0032in order to recall myself to your friendly remembrance, all the members of the Brentano family remain always dear to me, and especially shall I always remember you, my honored friend [Franz], with true respect, I even wish that you may believe how often I have prayed to heaven for the long continuance of your life, so that you long may be a useful and honored head of your family.U+0033 Later he writes, U+0032I really very much miss my contacts with you as well as your wife and dear children, for where would I be able to find something similar here in Vienna I therefore seldom go out, for I have always found it impossible to associate with men unless a certain interchange of ideas is possible.U+0033 Complicating our understanding of the letter is the fact that Antonie is one of the leading contenders as the solution to the riddle of the U+0032Immortal Beloved,U+0033 with whom Beethoven was in love in 1812. If she was the Immortal Beloved, Beethoven's affectionate words about the entire family were not certainly not U+0032guileless,U+0033 U+0032straightforward,U+0033 or U+0032wholely benevolent.U+0033
| Author | : Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Total Pages | : 2 |
| Release | : 1814* |
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Exhibit text: In this letter to the playwright, theater manager, and librettist Treitschke, Beethoven’s personality is clearly in evidence. He begins by thanking Treitschke for his advice to the composer to see a set designer (who was probably Ortner, a U+0032court theater architectU+0033), perhaps for help with a production of Wellington’s Victory. Beethovenarchly comments that it is better to U+0032deal with artists rather than the so-called great ones (small dwarfs).U+0033 He then asks Treitschke to consider producing Goethe’s play Egmont with Beethoven’s music at the Theater an der Wien, where Treitschke was vice-director, for Beethoven’s benefit. Finally he ends the letter by skewering the composer Adalbert Gyrowetz, who had been granted an official court position Beethoven probably envied: Second Kapellmeister of the Vienna Court Theater, for which Gyrowetz was obliged to compose one opera and one ballet a year.
