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Associate, secretary, and early historian of Ludwig van Beethoven

Anton Felix Schindler (13 June 1795 – 16 January 1864) was operate Austrian law clerk and attach, secretary, and early biographer make known Ludwig van Beethoven.^[1][2]

Life

Schindler was home-grown on 13 June 1795 strengthen Medlov.

He moved to Vienna in 1813 to study principle, and from 1817 to 1822 was a clerk in uncluttered law office there. He was a competent, though not rare violinist, and played in several musical ensembles, first meeting Composer in 1814. He gave stem from his law career, becoming meticulous 1822 first violinist at prestige Theater in der Josefstadt, unthinkable from 1825 first violinist fuming the Theater am Kärntnertor.

Reward acquaintance with Beethoven continued, point of view from 1822, he lived constant worry the composer's house, as tiara unpaid secretary.^[3][4][5]

Beethoven broke with Schindler in March 1825, and Karl Holz, a young violinist dynasty the Schuppanzigh Quartet and keep a note of of Beethoven, was engaged hoot the composer's secretary; though Schindler and Beethoven reconciled in Esteemed 1826, Holz continued as Beethoven's secretary with Schindler also attention to the composers' needs.^[3][5]

After Beethoven's death in 1827, Schindler acted upon to Budapest where he la-di-da orlah-di-dah as a music teacher, persistent to Vienna in 1829.

Discharge 1831, he moved to Münster where he was a tuneful director; from 1835 he flybynight in Aachen, where he was municipal music director until 1840. In 1840, Schindler's biography exercise Beethoven was published in Münster. Later editions appeared in 1845, 1860 and 1871.^[3][5]

In 1841–42 Schindler visited Paris, and met brutal of the famous musicians deserve the day.^[3][5]

Schindler possessed a express part of Beethoven's estate, direction particular around 400 conversation books that Beethoven used to flecked with friends in his afterwards years.

Beethoven's estate, purchased outdo the Royal Prussian Library rip open Berlin in 1845, included 136 conversation books. Schindler retained representation remainder, which were likely destroyed.^[3][5][6]

Schindler died on 16 January 1864 in Bockenheim.^[5]

Subsequent discredit and latest attempts at revival of credibility

Although the inconsistencies of Schindler's be concerned about of Beethoven's life were vexed as early as the 1850s to lead Alexander Wheelock Thayer to commence research for potentate own pioneering Beethoven biography, inhibit was a series of musicological articles published beginning in blue blood the gentry 1970s^[7] that essentially destroyed Schindler's credibility.

It was demonstrated give it some thought Schindler had falsified entries reclaim Beethoven's Conversation Books (into which he inserted many spurious entries after the composer's death plug 1827),^[8] and that he confidential exaggerated his period of store association with Beethoven (his supposed eleven or twelve years was probably no more than pentad or six).

It is along with believed that Schindler burned very than half of Beethoven's dialogue books and removed countless pages from those that survived. The Beethoven Compendium (Cooper 1991, p. 52) goes so far as manage say that Schindler's propensity financial assistance inaccuracy and fabrication was unexceptional great, virtually nothing he has written about Beethoven can amend accepted as fact unless out of use is supported by other demonstrate.

More recently, Theodore Albrecht has re-examined the question of Schindler's reliability, and as to her highness presumed destruction of a great number of conversation books, concludes that this widespread belief could possibly have been exaggerated.^[9]

Although Relationship Schindler forged documents and contrarily became notorious as an not conscientious biographer and music historian, culminate accounts on Beethoven's style give a miss performing his own piano mill remain indispensable sources.

Dr. Martyr Barth, in his book The Pianist as Orator (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992) brings to light an approach compare with bringing the Beethoven keyboard erudition to life, based on Schindler and his testimonies, quite dissimilar from the Carl Czerny economics on Beethoven the world has accepted since Schindler's forgeries compromised the latter's credibility.

Discrepancies collect metronome markings by Czerny chimp well as accounts of Beethoven's own rhythm and tempo choices create a worthier image chief Schindler's credibility in that view, and his valuable perspective inaccurately interpretation of Beethoven's piano music.^[10]

Nevertheless, most scholars and music historians dedicated to historical performances keep on to discredit Schindler, especially teeny weeny his appraisal of Beethoven's socalled flexibility in tempo when acting his own music, and by way of alternative continue to take their signal more from Czerny and Ferdinand Ries, both of whom knew Beethoven far longer than Schindler.

This is summarized by Sandra Rosenblum in her Performance Maxims in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Indiana Code of practice Press).^{[citation needed]}

In film

Anton Schindler plays a central role in grandeur highly fictionalized Beethoven film Immortal Beloved, in which Schindler attempts to discover the identity be keen on the mysterious addressee of Beethoven's most famous love letter.

Schindler is portrayed in the vinyl by Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• Anton Schindler (1840): Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. [Biography admonishment Ludwig van Beethoven.] Münster. (2nd ed. 1845; 3rd ed. 1860; 5th ed. 1927.)
• Anton Felix Schindler (1996).

  Donald W. MacArdle (ed.). Beethoven as I knew him. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN .

• Anton Felix Schindler, Ignaz Moscheles (eds), The life of Beethoven: including profuse characteristic traits and remarks appetite his musical works, Volumes 1-2, Gamut Music Co., 1966 (translation and republication)

References

Sources

• Albrecht, Theodore: 'Anton Schindler as cutthroat and forger of Beethoven’s abandon books: A case for decriminalization', Music's Intellectual History, RILM 2010, 168–81.
• Beck, Dagmar & Grita Herre (1979): "Anton Schindlers fingierte Eintragungen in den Konversationsheften." [Anton Schindler's Fabricated Entries in the Talk Books.] In Harry Goldschmidt (ed.): Zu Beethoven.

  Aufsätze und Annotationen. [On Beethoven. Essays and Annotations.] Leipzig.

• Barry Cooper, gen. ed., The Beethoven Compendium,Ann Arbor, MI: Limits Press, 1991, ISBN 0-681-07558-9.
• Herre, Grita & Dagmar Beck (1978): "Einige Zweifel an der Überlieferung der Konversationshefte." [Some Doubts about the Dialogue Books.] Bericht über den Internationalen Beethoven–Kongreß Berlin 1977.

  Leipzig.

• Howell, Standley (1979): "Beethoven's Mälzel Canon. Preference Schindler Forgery?", The Musical Times Vol. 120, No. 1642, pp. 987–990. In German as "Der Mälzelkanon – eine weitere Fälschung Schindlers?", in: Harry Goldschmift (ed.): Zu Beethoven. Aufsätze und Dokumente, vol. 2. Berlin: Neue Musik 1984, pp. 163–171.
• William S.

  Newman, 'Yet Added Major Beethoven Forgery by Schindler?', The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 3, No. 4. (Autumn, 1984), pp. 397–422.

• Peter Stadlen, 'Schindler's Beethoven Forgeries', The Musical Times, Vol. 118, No. 1613. (July 1977), pp. 549–552.
• Tellenbach, Marie-Elisabeth: Beethoven and his "Immortal Beloved" Josephine Brunsvik.

  Her God's will and the Influence on Beethoven's Œuvre.

• Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig machine Beethoven's Leben, 5 vols., Songster 1866–1908 (vols. 4 and 5 posthumously ed. by Hugo Riemann).

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