Conversation books (Beethoven)

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The conversation books Ludwig van Beethoven spent the early deafened a communication medium composers from the 1818th

Existence and tradition

Beethoven's so-called conversation books contain a large part of the contributions and information that his interlocutors gave him in writing. Since Beethoven mostly replied orally, they only exceptionally contain contributions from Beethoven's own hand, for example when he feared being overheard or was talking to another deaf person. However, Beethoven occasionally used the notebooks as a notebook. The booklets, of which, according to Alexander Wheelock Thayer, originally existed around 400, have only survived to a lesser extent and contain a number of subsequently forged entries from the pen of his Adlatus Anton Schindler (1795–1864). However, the exact extent of Schindler's interventions is controversial. Most of the original booklets that have been preserved are kept in the music department of the Berlin State Library ; two booklets are in the Beethoven House in Bonn .

Indexing and publication

Beethoven's biographers and music researchers became interested in the 139 well-known books early on, for example the editor of Beethoven's correspondence, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer , at the beginning of the 20th century . As early as the end of the 1920s, Ludwig Schiedermair made the decision to publish a complete edition of the conversation books. After 1945, the books were embezzled temporarily by the antiquarian and librarian Joachim Krüger-Riebow, who was temporarily active in the Berlin State Library, and temporarily transferred to Bonn (to the Beethoven House ) to camouflage other machinations .

The edition plan was then only implemented by the Prussian State Library , a project that was continued and completed by the later German State Library in Berlin (GDR).

Between 1972 and 2001, the booklets that Schindler received from Beethoven's estate were published in eleven volumes. A register volume, which will also contain the edition of scattered individual sheets as a supplement, is in preparation.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ludwig van Beethoven, conversation booklet 1, February-March 1818 , Beethoven-Haus Bonn
  2. ↑ Susanne Herzog: "My hearing has been getting weaker and weaker for three years ..." Beethoven's deafness and his conversation books (4) . (PDF; 131.1 kB) SWR2, July 21, 2016
  3. ^ George R. Marek: Ludwig van Beethoven. The life of a genius. Moderne Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 1970, DNB 457506601 , p. 607.
  4. ↑ Susanne Herzog: "My hearing has been getting weaker and weaker for three years ..." Beethoven's deafness and his conversation books (3) , SWR2, July 20, 2016 (PDF; 127.4 KB)
  5. ↑ Peter Stadlen : On Schindler's forgeries in Beethoven's conversation books . In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 32 (1977), pp. 246-252.
    ders .: Schindler and the conversation books . In: Soundings , 1978, No. 7, pp. 2-18.
    ders .: Schindler and the conversation books . In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift , vol. 34 (1979), pp. 2-18.
  6. ^ Theodore Albrecht : Anton Schindler as destroyer and forger of Beethoven's conversation books: A case for decriminalization. In: Zdravko Blažeković (Ed.): Music's Intellectual History (= RILM Perspectives. Volume 1). Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-932765-05-2 , pp. 168-181; rilm.org (PDF; 152 kB).
  7. ^ Sieghard Brandenburg : Collecting and Preserving - Editing and Evaluating. From the time the Beethoven Archive was founded . In: Bonner Beethoven Studies , Volume 5 (2006), pp. 71–93, p. 90.
  8. ↑ On the tradition and edition cf. Vol. 1 (1972), pp. 5-16.
  9. ↑ conversation books. Critical edition in 11 volumes and a register volume. Breitkopf & Härtel