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Thayer, Alexander Wheelock
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock (b South Natick, Mass., 1817; d Trieste, 1897). Amer. writer, the biographer of Beethoven. While student, determined to write life of Beethoven and went to Ger., Austria, and Bohemia 1849–52 to begin coll. of material. Over next decade spent much time interviewing people who had known Beethoven and examining documents. Book, entitled Ludwig van Beethovens Leben, was written in Eng., trans. into Ger. by H. Deiters of Bonn, and pubd. in Berlin, Vol. I (1770–96) in 1866, Vol. II (1797–1806) in 1872, Vol. III (1807–16) in 1879. Vol. IV was unfinished when he died and was completed by Riemann and pubd. in 1907. Riemann pubd. Vol. V in 1908 and rev. of Vols. II and III in 1910–11. Eng. edn. in 3 vols. by H. E. Krehbiel was pubd. in NY, 1921, and by E. Forbes, pubd. in Princeton 1964, rev. 1967.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Thayer, Alexander Wheelock." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Thayer, Alexander Wheelock." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-ThayerAlexanderWheelock.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Thayer, Alexander Wheelock." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-ThayerAlexanderWheelock.html |
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Thayer, Alexander Wheelock
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock (1817–97), born in Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard (1843), and became famous as a music critic for the New York Tribune and other papers. He was U.S. consul at Trieste (1864–82). His most famous work is his Life of Beethoven (3 vols., 1866–79).
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Thayer, Alexander Wheelock." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Thayer, Alexander Wheelock." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-ThayerAlexanderWheelock.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Thayer, Alexander Wheelock." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-ThayerAlexanderWheelock.html |
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