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THE AMERICAN BEETHOVEN SOCIETY
“What is a novel, but a collection of lies we tell to reveal greater truths.”
Johann Gardner
For readers who want to know more about Beethoven, his music, his life, and times, listed below are many of the books and recordings the author consulted during the writing of Beethoven in Love; Opus 139. Click on any entry to open a new window at Amazon, where they are available.
Books on Beethoven
An Unrequited Love: An Episode in the Life of Beethoven, from the Diary of a Young Lady, Fanny Giannatasio Del Rio, Ludwig Nohl, Translated by Annie Wood, Richard Bentley & Son, 1876
Beethoven, Joseph Kerman & Alan Tyson, The New Grove Series, W.W. Norton & Company, 1983
Beethoven, Second, Revised Edition, Maynard Solomon, Schirmer Trade Books, 2001
“Beethoven, A True Fleshly Father?” Susan Lund, The Beethoven Journal, 3-1, 1988
Beethoven and the Catholic Brentanos: The Story Behind Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Susan Lund, BookSurge, 2007
Beethoven and the Archduke Rudolph, Donald W. MacArdle, in Beethoven Jahrbuch, Beethovenhaus, Bonn, 1962
Beethoven and the Spiritual Path, David Tame, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1994
Beethoven, Biography of a Genius, George R. Marek, Funk & Wagnalls, 1969
Beethoven Essays, Maynard Solomon, Harvard University Press, 1988
Beethoven—His Spiritual Development, J. W. N. Sullivan, Alfred A. Knopf, 1936
Beethoven Im Zeitgenossischen Bildness, Theodor Frimmel, Verlag Karl Konig, Wien, 1925
Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries, Edited by Oscar Sonneck, G Schirmer, Inc., 1954
Beethoven, Letters, Journals and Conversations, Edited & Translated by Michael Hamburger, Thames & Hudson, 1984
Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries, Franz Wegeler, Ferdinand Ries, Notes by Dr. A. C. Kalisher, Translated by Frederick Bauman & Tim Clark, Great Ocean Publishers, 1987
Beethoven, The Man, The Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edited by Friedrich Kerst and Henry Edward Krehbiel, Hard Press, 2010
Beethoven: The Music and the Life, Lewis Lockwood, W.W. Norton & Company, 2003
Beethoven’s Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved, Russell Martin, Broadway Books, Random House, 2000
Beethoven’s Letters with Explanatory Notes by Dr. A.C. Kalischer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Translated by J.S. Shedlock, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1926
Beethoven’s Only Beloved: Josephine, John E. Klapproth, CreateSpace, 2012
Diagnosing Genius, The Life & Death of Beethoven, Francois Martin Mai, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007
Die “Unsterbliche Geliebte” Beethovens; Giulietta Guicciardi Oder Therese Brunswick, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, Verlag von Richard Bertling, 1891
Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination, Maynard Solomon, University of California Press, 2004
Letters to Beethoven and Other Correspondence, Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Translated & Edited by Theodore Albrecht, University of Nebraska Press in Association with the American Beethoven Society and the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San Jose State University, 1996
Memories of Beethoven: From the House of the Black-Robed Spaniards, Gerhard von Breuning, Edited by Maynard Solomon, Translated from the German by Henry Mins and Maynard Solomon, Cambridge University Press, Canto Edition,
Thayer’s Life of Beethoven, Volume 1, Volume 2, Revised & Edited by Elliot Forbes, Princeton University Press, 1967
The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven’s Life and Music, Edited by Barry Cooper, Thames & Hudson, 1996
The Letters of Beethoven, Volumes 1-3, Edited & Translated by Emily Anderson, W.W. Norton & Company, 1985
Related Readings
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, Translated and Compiled by Wing-Tsit Chan, Princeton University Press, 1963
Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven’s Patron, Pupil and Friend; His Life and Music, Susan Kagan, Pendragon Press, 1988
Don Giovanni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1787
Friedrich Schiller, Charles E. Passage, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1975
Ghetto in Flames, Dr. Yitzhak Arad, Holocaust Library, 1982
Mozart, A Life, Maynard Solomon, Harper Perennial, 1996
Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edited and Translated by Robert Spaethling,
Napoleon, Vincent Cronin, HarperCollins, 1971
Schubert’s Vienna, Edited by Raymond Erickson, Yale University Press, 1997
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English, Alfred A. Knopf, 1972
The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Eknath Easwaran, Nilgiri Press, Second Edition 2011
The I Ching or Book of Changes, Wilhelm/Baynes Edition, Princeton University Press, Third Edition, 1967
The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works, Charles Follen, George Dearborn & Co., 1837
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French, Sir Walter Scott, Longman, Rees, Brown & Green, 1827
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation, Translated by Gyurme Dorje, Penguin Books, 2005
Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx, Friedrich Schiller, 1801
Water Music: Making Music in the Spas of Europe and North America, Ian Bradley, Oxford University Press, 2010
