Immortal Beloved

Beethoven's immortal beloved : solving the mystery / by Walden, Edward, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven's letter to the Immortal Beloved -- The case for Bettina -- Beethoven and Bettina after 1812 -- The mysterious missing letters -- The Teplitz letter and the Ilius manuscript -- Bettina's concept of love -- The Beethoven-Bettina romance -- Beethoven the poet -- The tarnishing of Bettina's reputation -- Beethoven's Goethe songs -- A modern analysis -- The Antonie theory -- Synopsis and conclusion.…”
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Beethoven : for bass voice and ensemble : (2008) / by Barry, Gerald, 1952-

“…Beethoven's letters to his 'immortal beloved'…”
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Beethoven : a life / by Caeyers, Jan, 1953-

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Beethoven : a life / by Caeyers, Jan, 1953-

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Beethoven / by Cooper, Barry

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 Young Genius (1770-83); 2 Adolescence (1784-9); 3 Farewell to Bonn (1790-2); 4 The Conquest of Vienna (1792-5); 5 Wider Horizons (1796-8); 6 First Quartets and First Symphony (1799-1800); 7 Hope and Despair (1801-2); 8 After Heiligenstadt (1802-3); 9 L'amour conjugal (1804-6); 10 A Cluster of Masterpieces (1806-8); 11 Financial Security? (1809-10); 12 Immortal Beloved (1811-12); 13 The Political Phase (1813-15); 14 Declining Productivity (1815-17); 15 Gigantism (1818-20); 16 Completion of the Mass (1820-2); 17 Completion of the Ninth (1822-4).…”
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Palace of the winds : the piano at the movies.

Table of Contents: “…A retreat/Read me to sleep/Palace of the winds -- Immortal beloved. Für Elise (Beethoven) ; Sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2 "Moonlight." …”
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Beethoven : the man revealed / by Suchet, John, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- A deeply immoral woman : Beethoven holds the most important concert of his life, and is offered a job -- Under cannon fire : in which Beethoven once again tries his luck at love -- Immortal beloved : 'my angel, my all, my very self' -- An utterly untamed personality : Beethoven turns again to his 'poor shipwrecked opera' -- Into the witness box : how the single letter 'o' ruined Beethoven's life -- A musical gift from London : how Rossini found Beethoven 'disorderly and dirty' -- 'I want to be a soldier' : in which Beethoven gets drunk with friends -- Two pistols and gunpowder : an invitation to get away from it all -- Frightening the oxen : 'The greatest composer of the century, and you treated him like a servant!' …”

In search of the great composers.

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The winter dance party : poems, 1983-2023 / by Kirby, David, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Night We Met, You Told Me about Marie Curie -- I Wish I Were a Cannibal -- What Ray Charles Says -- I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay -- Bernardo Buontalenti -- Drivers Seize Opportunities -- The House at the Bend in the River -- Immortal Beloved -- I Want to Be Your Person -- I Should Have It to You by Noon -- Senior Coffee -- Years and Years -- The World Is So Beautiful, It Will Give You No Peace -- Borges at the Northside Rotary -- I Know This Much Is True -- This Living Hand -- Van Gogh -- All the Lonely People -- I Had a Girl -- Skinny-Dipping with Pat Nixon -- A Man Like You But Older -- The Look on That Man's Face -- Demons, Also Saints, Scientists, and Love-Struck Sophomores -- More Than This -- Use Additional Sheets as Necessary -- Walt Whitman Is Dying -- The Last Song on the Jukebox -- Pruno -- Imperfect -- The Diet of Worms -- What Are They Up To Now -- If I Don't Go Crazy -- Walt Whitman Floors It -- Siberia -- Art Is Not Therapy -- Calling Robert Bly -- Stanza -- The Cottingley Fairy Hoax -- Orange Plastic Shoehorn -- The Devil in Music -- Talking about Movies with Jesus -- Dear Chestnuts, French Babies, Statues, and Bees -- Bull Cow Moanin' at Midnight -- A Man Is Standing by the Roadside in His Pajamas, Holding a Possum -- The Ah Oui Girl -- The Exorcist of Notre-Dame -- King of Good Fellows -- Look, Slavs -- The Hours -- Jesus's Dog -- Legion, for We Are Many -- The Laughter of Pigs -- Gales of Helpless Laughter -- Friend, Let's Go There -- The Winter Dance Party -- The Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart -- Big Meal with Gioachino Rossini -- The Fates -- Galileo -- Gnürszk -- To a Poet Living Two Billion Years from Now -- It Just Keeps Getting Better -- Armstrong's Good Night -- Poetry Is Full of Uncertainty These Days and for Good Reason -- Is This a Saxifrage I See before Me? …”
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