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Author : John Cordy Jeaffreson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D03014628V
Author : John Cordy Jeaffreson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2BUQ
Author : Thomas Crane Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UCAL:$C33072
Author : Library of Congress,American Library Association. Committee on Resources of American Libraries. National Union Catalog Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Catalogs, Union
ISBN : UOM:39015082987127
Author : Thomas Crane Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C217790
Author : Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465583222
If for no other reasons than because of the long time and monumental patience expended upon its preparation, the vicissitudes through which it has passed and the varied and arduous labors bestowed upon it by the author and his editors, the history of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set forth as an introduction to this work. His work it is, and his monument, though others have labored long and painstakingly upon it. There has been no considerable time since the middle of the last century when it has not occupied the minds of the author and those who have been associated with him in its creation. Between the conception of its plan and its execution there lies a period of more than two generations. Four men have labored zealously and affectionately upon its pages, and the fruits of more than four score men, stimulated to investigation by the first revelations made by the author, have been conserved in the ultimate form of the biography. It was seventeen years after Mr. Thayer entered upon what proved to be his life-task before he gave the first volume to the world—and then in a foreign tongue; it was thirteen more before the third volume came from the press. This volume, moreover, left the work unfinished, and thirty-two years more had to elapse before it was completed. When this was done the patient and self-sacrificing investigator was dead; he did not live to finish it himself nor to see it finished by his faithful collaborator of many years, Dr. Deiters; neither did he live to look upon a single printed page in the language in which he had written that portion of the work published in his lifetime. It was left for another hand to prepare the English edition of an American writer’s history of Germany’s greatest tone-poet, and to write its concluding chapters, as he believes, in the spirit of the original author. Under these circumstances there can be no vainglory in asserting that the appearance of this edition of Thayer’s Life of Beethoven deserves to be set down as a significant occurrence in musical history. In it is told for the first time in the language of the great biographer the true story of the man Beethoven—his history stripped of the silly sentimental romance with which early writers and their later imitators and copyists invested it so thickly that the real humanity, the humanliness, of the composer has never been presented to the world. In this biography there appears the veritable Beethoven set down in his true environment of men and things—the man as he actually was, the man as he himself, like Cromwell, asked to be shown for the information of posterity. It is doubtful if any other great man’s history has been so encrusted with fiction as Beethoven’s. Except Thayer’s, no biography of him has been written which presents him in his true light. The majority of the books which have been written of late years repeat many of the errors and falsehoods made current in the first books which were written about him. A great many of these errors and falsehoods are in the account of the composer’s last sickness and death, and were either inventions or exaggerations designed by their utterers to add pathos to a narrative which in unadorned truth is a hundredfold more pathetic than any tale of fiction could possibly be. Other errors have concealed the truth in the story of Beethoven’s guardianship of his nephew, his relations with his brothers, the origin and nature of his fatal illness, his dealings with his publishers and patrons, the generous attempt of the Philharmonic Society of London to extend help to him when upon his deathbed.
Author : W. S. (William Schwenck) 1836 Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1360492089
Author : Joseph Arthur Gibbs
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Social Science
ISBN : YALE:39002085618834
Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814783436
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
Author : William Hamilton Maxwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Fishing
ISBN : NYPL:33433066593371
Author : Julia Pardoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108074414
This two-volume work, published in 1837, gives a lively and observant account of life in the declining Ottoman empire.
Author : Harriott Ely Fansler
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338090379
This book is meant as a work-table guide for the student and as a time-saver for the teacher; hence all the necessary material should be immediately at hand. The instructor's concern in the teaching of narrative writing is just the twofold one mentioned before—to orientate the young scribbler and to give him a quick and sure inspiration. After that, he is to be left alone to write, and the fewer the books around him the better.
Author : James John Hissey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : England
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019321744
Author : Jan Sewell,Clare Smout
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030238285
This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of ‘history’, ‘stage’ and even the definition of ‘women’ itself.
Author : Martin H. Manser,Rosalind Fergusson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Proverbs, English
ISBN : 9780816066735
Lists the meaning and origin of more than 1,700 traditional and contemporary English proverbs.
