Beethoven, the
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
作者：Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827; Kerst, Friedrich, 1870-1961 [Editor]; Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923 [Editor]
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共 54 题- BEETHOVEN: THE MAN AND THE ARTIST,
- AS REVEALED IN HIS OWN WORDS
- By Ludwig van Beethoven
- Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel
- TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
- PREFACE
- CONCERNING ART
- 9. “In the country I know no lovelier delight than quartet music.”
- LOVE OF NATURE
- 12. On the Kahlenberg, 1812, end of September:
- 17. “Bruhl, at ‘The Lamb’--how lovely to see my native country again!”
- CONCERNING TEXTS
- ON COMPOSING
- 37. “No devil can compel me to write only cadences of such a kind.”
- ON PERFORMING MUSIC
- 64. “The great pianists have nothing but technique and affectation.”
- 66. “Habit may depreciate the most brilliant talents.”
- 68. “One must be something if one wishes to put on appearances.”
- ON HIS OWN WORKS
- 87. “Read Shakespeare’s ‘Tempest.’”
- 90. “Thus Fate knocks at the portals!”
- ON ART AND ARTISTS
- 106. “L’art unit tout le monde,--how much more the true artist!”
- BEETHOVEN AS CRITIC
- 128. “Truly, a divine spark dwells in Schubert!”
- 145. “After all the fellow writes for money only.”
- ON EDUCATION
- 149. “Like the State, each man must have his own constitution.”
- 151. “I know no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.”
- ON HIS OWN DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER
- 170. “Concerning myself nothing,--that is, from nothing nothing.”
- 171. “Beethoven can write, thank God; but do nothing else on earth.”
- 179. “I, too, am a king!”
- 181. “My nobility is here, and here (pointing to his heart and head).”
- 183. “To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.”
- 215. “The daily grind exhausts me.”
- THE SUFFERER
- 246. “I must have a confidant at my side lest life become a burden.”
- WORLDLY WISDOM
- 256. “Courage, so it be righteous, will gain all things.”
- 259. “Man, help yourself!”
- 261. “Follow the advice of others only in the rarest cases.”
- 262. “The moral law in us, and the starry sky above us.”--Kant.
- 266. “Only the praise of one who has enjoyed praise can give pleasure.”
- 279. “True friendship can rest only on the union of like natures.”
- 285. “Hate reacts on those who nourish it.”
- 291. “One must not measure the cost of the useful.”
- 293. “How stupidity and wretchedness always go in pairs!”
- 307. “Fate gave man the courage of endurance.”
- GOD
- 314. “He who is above,--O, He is, and without Him there is nothing.”
- APPENDIX
- END OF THIS EDITION