Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Name: A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer

A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

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“A Dictionary of Music and Musicians”, published in 1900, is a work by Alexander Wheelock Thayer. It explores elements such as Beethoven, Archduke and Rudolph.

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ Köchel sensibly remarks that the trouble lay in Beethoven's 'aversion to the enforced performance of regular duties, especially to giving lessons, and teaching the theory of music, in which it is well known his strength did not lie, and for which he had to prepare himself.' When the untamed nature of Beethoven, and his deafness, are considered, together with his lack of worldly wisdom and his absolute need of a Mæcenas, one feels deeply how fortunate he was to have attracted and retained the sympathy and affection of a man of such sweet and tender qualities as Archduke Rudolph. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ For the second, in the highest degree distinguished alike for her intellectual and physical charms, Weber conceived a warm and deep, and, through the lady's virtues, a highly ennobling affection.' As Weber in 1812, so Beethoven the year before, who met her at Töplitz, whither she had come with the once-famous Countess von der Recke, whose house in Berlin, the 'Recksche Palais,' afterwards became the home of the Mendelssohns. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ Beethoven in 1817 told Fräulein Giannatasio, that he had struck his pupil's fingers, and, upon Rudolph's resenting the affront, had defended himself by pointing to a passage in one of the poets (Goethe?) which sustained him.
Beethoven's triple concerto, op. 56 (1804) , though dedicated to Prince Lobkowitz, was written, says Schindler, for the Archduke, Seidler, and Kraft. The work does not require great execution in the piano part, but a youth of sixteen able to play it must be a very respectable performer. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ In 1824 he was appointed member of the imperial council and much employed in the reorganisation of the army. Here Beethoven's friend Stephan von Breuning, Hofrath in the Ministry of War, became favourably known to him, and was thus able to obtain an appointment for Beethoven's nephew, Carl, in the regiment of which Stutterheim was 'Inhaber.' Beethoven, grateful for this kindness, dedicated the quartet to him. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ His great-grandfather, Carl VI., so accompanied an opera by Fux, that the composer exclaimed: 'Bravo! your Majesty might serve anywhere as chief Kapellmeister!' 'Not so fast, my dear chief Kapellmeister,' replied the Emperor; 'we are better off as we are!' His grandmother, the great Maria Theresa, was a well-educated dilettante, and a fine singer; her children, from very early age, sang and performed cantatas and little dramas, to words by Metastasio, on birthdays and fetes. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ The Schwarzspanierhaus is that long range of building, with an old church at its western end, which stands in the rear of the new Votive Church at Vienna. Counting from the old church, the fifth to the ninth windows in the upper story were those of Beethoven's lodging, of which the above is a plan. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ His uncle, Max Franz, was Elector of Cologne, viola-player, and organiser of that splendid orchestra at Bonn, to which the Rombergs, Rieses, Reichas and Beethovens belonged. It was his father, Leopold, who, after the first performance of Cimarosa's 'Matrimonio segreto,' gave all those who took part in the production a supper, and then ordered the performance to be repeated ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ It was at this time that Beethoven composed the cycle of songs 'To the distant loved one.' Schindler supposed his 'Autumn love' to have been for a certain Marie Koschak: he is wrong; Beethoven never saw that lady until after she had married Dr. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ After the repulse of the Turks and the restoration of peace, Anton Vogel, a Viennese novice of the order, travelled through Italy, Spain and Portugal, and collected funds sufficient to rebuild the monastery of which he was, not unnaturally, then made Prior. ”

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Alexander Wheelock Thayer, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1900)

“ Toplitz am 8. August 1812. [1]
He met her there again in Sept 1812, and a series of notes to her of that date, published by Jahn in the 'Grenzboten,' from copies furnished by the writer of this notice, shows the extraordinary impression which she made upon him. ”

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