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    Alexander Wheelock Thayer (October 22, 1817 – July 15, 1897) was an American librarian and journalist who became the author of the first scholarly biography...
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    A copy of this painting, once owned by Beethoven's biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer, is now owned by the New York Public Library. Mähler's 1814 portrait...
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    Julius Maria van Beethoven, having died without a son in 1917. Alexander Wheelock Thayer, The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I of III accessed 15...
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    priest. Johann Balthasar Keverich (1743) Gallus Keverich (1743) Alexander Wheelock Thayer, The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I of III accessed 17...
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    The portrait is 72.0 by 58.5 centimetres (28.3 by 23.0 in). Alexander Wheelock Thayer wrote that the painting was "sketchy" and never fully finished...
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    (1816–1890), New York politician Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), American librarian, journalist, and biographer Andrew J. Thayer (1818–1873), United States...
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    maybe Bettenhoven[citation needed]. A number of authors, such as Alexander Wheelock Thayer and Donald W. MacArdle in his book The Family van Beethoven, point...
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    1996, p. 55. Solomon 1998, pp. 51–52. Thayer 1967a, p. 121–122. Solomon 1998, pp. 36–37. Thayer, Alexander Wheelock; Association, Beethoven (1921). The...
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    for a piece to dedicate to Guicciardi. See Thayer, Alexander Wheelock (1921). Elliot, Forbes (ed.). Thayer's Life of Beethoven (revised ed.). Princeton:...
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    the first movement with the others were only introduced later. Alexander Wheelock Thayer, on the other hand, put forward the view that the beginning of...
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    critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer. The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated...
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  • Solomon (1995), p. 395 Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Elliot Forbes, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1991) Thayer's Life of Beethoven, Volume...
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  • Freischütz (1821) is an example. According to his early biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig van Beethoven spoke disparagingly of the 'accumulation...
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    The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-12-02. Life of Beethoven by Alexander Wheelock Thayer, p. 447 Cf. Beethoven House Bonn, Skizzenblatt zu den Streichquartetten...
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    of Beethoven's life were clear as early as the 1850s to lead Alexander Wheelock Thayer to commence research for his own pioneering Beethoven biography...
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    shall hear in heaven," apropos his deafness. Beethoven biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer, in his notebook, recorded Hüttenbrenner's account of Beethoven's...
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    friend Stephan von Breuning, gave this description of Johann to Alexander Wheelock Thayer: "His frame was not actually large, but was much larger than Ludwig's...
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    Musical Quarterly. 11 (1): 63–72. ISSN 0027-4631. JSTOR 738386. Alexander Wheelock Thayer; Hermann Deiters; Hugo Riemann. Ludwig van Beethovens Leben (in...
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    Immortal Beloved, Anubian Press 1996; ISBN 1-888071-01-X Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Thayer's Life of Beethoven (Hermann Deiters, Henry Edward Krehbiel...
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  • Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), author of The life of Ludwig van Beethoven, a standard biography, and other music biographies Albert R. Thayer...
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    first most researchers, including Alexander Wheelock Thayer, also thought Therese was the "Immortal Beloved". Thayer thought the letter must have been...
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    exhibition, like for example diplomat and Beethoven biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897) in 2010 on the 100th anniversary of the publication...
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    Olympic volleyball player Don Terry (1902–1988), film actor Alexander Wheelock Thayer, US consul at Trieste in 1859 and author of a biography of Ludwig...
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    French author and essayist; served as Consul of France in Trieste. Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817–1897), American librarian and journalist. Samuel David Luzzatto...
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    (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2008. Thayer, Alexander Wheelock. Thayer's Life of Beethoven. Revised and edited by Elliott Forbes....
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    Quartets. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1966. ISBN 0-393-00909-2 Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Life of Beethoven. Princeton, rev. 1964. Sir George Grove, "Beethoven"...
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    slightly earlier period, 1815, Beethoven's authoritative biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writes, "Diabelli, born near Salzburg in 1781, had now been for...
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    the houses were re-numbered in 1804, rather than 1802. In 1872, Alexander Wheelock Thayer had identified the correct house: Hofzeile 15, which no longer...
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  • at the court opera in Vienna, and in Breslau (now Wrocław). Alexander Wheelock Thayer wrote: "Her voice—she was but eighteen years old—was not powerful...
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    Abtheilung. Gruppe IV. Wiener Hoftheater, Vienna 1892, p. 350 Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig van Beethovens Leben, edited by Hermann Deiters, volume...
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