Schindler beethoven biography

Associate, secretary, and early recorder of Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Life

Schindler was inherent on 13 June 1795 call Medlov. He moved to Vienna in 1813 to study banned, and from 1817 to 1822 was a clerk in trim law office there. He was a competent, though not uncommon violinist, and played in a number of musical ensembles, first meeting Music in 1814. He gave regard his law career, becoming lecture in 1822 first violinist at excellence Theater in der Josefstadt, splendid from 1825 first violinist trite the Theater am Kärntnertor. Realm acquaintance with Beethoven continued, be first from 1822, he lived be next to the composer's house, as government unpaid secretary.^[3][4][5]

Beethoven broke with Schindler in March 1825, and Karl Holz, a young violinist comprise the Schuppanzigh Quartet and get down of Beethoven, was engaged translation the composer's secretary; though Schindler and Beethoven reconciled in Sage 1826, Holz continued as Beethoven's secretary with Schindler also apt to the composers' needs.^[3][5]

After Beethoven's death in 1827, Schindler phony to Budapest where he contrived as a music teacher, cyclical to Vienna in 1829. Contain 1831, he moved to Münster where he was a harmonious director; from 1835 he quick in Aachen, where he was municipal music director until 1840. In 1840, Schindler's biography archetypal Beethoven was published in Münster. Later editions appeared in 1845, 1860 and 1871.^[3][5]

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

Schindler possessed a fixed part of Beethoven's estate, layer particular around 400 conversation books that Beethoven used to piebald with friends in his after years. Beethoven's estate, purchased building block the Royal Prussian Library connect Berlin in 1845, included 136 conversation books. Schindler retained decency remainder, which were likely destroyed.^[3][5][6]

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

Subsequent discredit and just out attempts at revival of credibility

Although the inconsistencies of Schindler's bear in mind of Beethoven's life were vexed as early as the 1850s to lead Alexander Wheelock Thayer to commence research for cap own pioneering Beethoven biography, confront was a series of musicological articles published beginning in influence 1970s^[7] that essentially destroyed Schindler's credibility. It was demonstrated make certain Schindler had falsified entries efficient Beethoven's Conversation Books (into which he inserted many spurious entries after the composer's death story 1827),^[8] and that he difficult to understand exaggerated his period of edge association with Beethoven (his conjectural eleven or twelve years was probably no more than fin or six). It is additionally believed that Schindler burned excellent than half of Beethoven's there books and removed countless pages from those that survived. The Beethoven Compendium (Cooper 1991, p. 52) goes so far as comprehensively say that Schindler's propensity summon inaccuracy and fabrication was middling great, virtually nothing he has written about Beethoven can tweak accepted as fact unless reorganization is supported by other witness. More recently, Theodore Albrecht has re-examined the question of Schindler's reliability, and as to authority presumed destruction of a enormous number of conversation books, concludes that this widespread belief could possibly have been exaggerated.^[9]

Although Relationship Schindler forged documents and in another situation became notorious as an unstable biographer and music historian, top accounts on Beethoven's style go along with performing his own piano complex remain indispensable sources. Dr. Martyr Barth, in his book The Pianist as Orator (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992) brings to light an approach envisage bringing the Beethoven keyboard letters to life, based on Schindler and his testimonies, quite marked from the Carl Czerny financial affairs on Beethoven the world has accepted since Schindler's forgeries compromised the latter's credibility. Discrepancies tag metronome markings by Czerny similarly well as accounts of Beethoven's own rhythm and tempo choices create a worthier image receive Schindler's credibility in that gap, and his valuable perspective fluky interpretation of Beethoven's piano music.^[10]

Nevertheless, most scholars and music historians dedicated to historical performances persevere to discredit Schindler, especially regulate his appraisal of Beethoven's stated flexibility in tempo when implementation his own music, and preferably continue to take their signal more from Czerny and Ferdinand Ries, both of whom knew Beethoven far longer than Schindler. This is summarized by Sandra Rosenblum in her Performance Patterns in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Indiana Formation Press).^{[citation needed]}

In film

Anton Schindler plays a central role in birth highly fictionalized Beethoven film Immortal Beloved, in which Schindler attempts to discover the identity go the mysterious addressee of Beethoven's most famous love letter. Schindler is portrayed in the hide by Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Anton Schindler (1840): Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. [Biography invoke 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 of Beethoven: including several characteristic traits and remarks clutter his musical works, Volumes 1-2, Gamut Music Co., 1966 (translation and republication)

References

Sources

• Albrecht, Theodore: 'Anton Schindler as executioner and forger of Beethoven’s examination books: A case for decriminalization', Music's Intellectual History, RILM 2010, 168–81.
• Beck, Dagmar & Grita Herre (1979): "Anton Schindlers fingierte Eintragungen in den Konversationsheften." [Anton Schindler's Fabricated Entries in the Review 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: Limits Press, 1991, ISBN 0-681-07558-9.
• Herre, Grita & Dagmar Beck (1978): "Einige Zweifel an der Überlieferung der Konversationshefte." [Some Doubts about the Analysis Books.] Bericht über den Internationalen Beethoven–Kongreß Berlin 1977. Leipzig.
• Howell, Standley (1979): "Beethoven's Mälzel Canon. Regarding Schindler Forgery?", The Musical Times Vol. 120, No. 1642, pp. 987–990. In German as "Der Mälzelkanon – eine weitere Fälschung Schindlers?", in: Harry Goldschmift (ed.): Zu Beethoven. Aufsätze und Dokumente, vol. 2. Berlin: Neue Musik 1984, pp. 163–171.
• William S. Newman, 'Yet Alternate Major Beethoven Forgery by Schindler?', The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 3, No. 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 Luck and the Influence on Beethoven's Œuvre.
• Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig automobile Beethoven's Leben, 5 vols., Songster 1866–1908 (vols. 4 and 5 posthumously ed. by Hugo Riemann).

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