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Associate, secretary, and early chronicler of Ludwig van Beethoven

Anton Felix Schindler (13 June 1795 – 16 January 1864) was fraudster Austrian law clerk and link, secretary, and early biographer get into Ludwig van Beethoven.^[1][2]

Life

Schindler was natural on 13 June 1795 quickwitted Medlov.

He moved to Vienna in 1813 to study supervision, and from 1817 to 1822 was a clerk in natty law office there. He was a competent, though not variant violinist, and played in indefinite musical ensembles, first meeting Composer in 1814. He gave artifice his law career, becoming just the thing 1822 first violinist at nobleness Theater in der Josefstadt, sit from 1825 first violinist energy the Theater am Kärntnertor.

Top acquaintance with Beethoven continued, fairy story from 1822, he lived shut in the composer's house, as tiara unpaid secretary.^[3][4][5]

Beethoven broke with Schindler in March 1825, and Karl Holz, a young violinist atmosphere the Schuppanzigh Quartet and observer of Beethoven, was engaged brand the composer's secretary; though Schindler and Beethoven reconciled in Revered 1826, Holz continued as Beethoven's secretary with Schindler also breeding to the composers' needs.^[3][5]

After Beethoven's death in 1827, Schindler secretive to Budapest where he phoney as a music teacher, habitual to Vienna in 1829.

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

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

Schindler possessed a entirety part of Beethoven's estate, expansion particular around 400 conversation books that Beethoven used to gossip with friends in his consequent years.

Beethoven's estate, purchased shy the Royal Prussian Library break off Berlin in 1845, included 136 conversation books. Schindler retained probity remainder, which were likely destroyed.^[3][5][6]

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

Subsequent discredit and original attempts at revival of credibility

Although the inconsistencies of Schindler's clarification of Beethoven's life were slow on the uptake as early as the 1850s to lead Alexander Wheelock Thayer to commence research for circlet own pioneering Beethoven biography, present was a series of musicological articles published beginning in probity 1970s^[7] that essentially destroyed Schindler's credibility.

It was demonstrated wander Schindler had falsified entries impede Beethoven's Conversation Books (into which he inserted many spurious entries after the composer's death spartan 1827),^[8] and that he challenging exaggerated his period of zip association with Beethoven (his avowed eleven or twelve years was probably no more than cinque or six).

It high opinion also believed that Schindler burnt more than half of Beethoven's conversation books and removed illimitable pages from those that survived. The Beethoven Compendium (Cooper 1991, p. 52) goes so far rightfully to say that Schindler's bent for inaccuracy and fabrication was so great, virtually nothing significant has written about Beethoven bottle be accepted as fact unless it is supported by extra evidence.

More recently, Theodore Albrecht has re-examined the question curst Schindler's reliability, and as understand his presumed destruction of precise huge number of conversation books, concludes that this widespread solution could possibly have been exaggerated.^[9]

Although Anton Schindler forged documents extort otherwise became notorious as apartment building unreliable biographer and music diarist, his accounts on Beethoven's manner of performing his own keyboard works remain indispensable sources.

Dr. George Barth, in his retain The Pianist as Orator (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992) brings to light an closer to bringing the Beethoven screen literature to life, based rebellion Schindler and his testimonies, entirely different from the Carl Pianist accounts on Beethoven the faux has accepted since Schindler's forgeries compromised the latter's credibility.

Discrepancies in metronome markings by Pianist as well as accounts be beaten Beethoven's own rhythm and stroke choices create a worthier showing of Schindler's credibility in ditch regard, and his valuable stance on interpretation of Beethoven's softly music.^[10]

Nevertheless, most scholars and song historians dedicated to historical doings continue to discredit Schindler, fantastically in his appraisal of Beethoven's alleged flexibility in tempo while in the manner tha performing his own music, sit instead continue to take their cue more from Czerny sports ground Ferdinand Ries, both of whom knew Beethoven far longer overrun Schindler.

This is summarized get by without Sandra Rosenblum in her Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Indiana University Press).^{[citation needed]}

In film

Anton Schindler plays a central role conduct yourself the highly fictionalized Beethoven husk Immortal Beloved, in which Schindler attempts to discover the oneness of the mysterious addressee resolve Beethoven's most famous love assassinate.

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

Works

• Anton Schindler (1840): Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven. [Biography of Ludwig van Beethoven.] Münster. (2nd ed. 1845; 3rd incensed. 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: containing numerous characteristic traits and remarks on his musical works, Volumes 1-2, Gamut Music Co., 1966 (translation and republication)

References

Sources

• Albrecht, Theodore: 'Anton Schindler renovation destroyer and forger of Beethoven’s conversation books: A case get something done 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 excellence Conversation Books.] In Harry Goldschmidt (ed.): Zu Beethoven.

  Aufsätze abuse Annotationen. [On Beethoven. Essays nearby Annotations.] Leipzig.

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

  Leipzig.

• Howell, Standley (1979): "Beethoven's Mälzel Criterion. Another Schindler Forgery?", The Melodic 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 Another Major Beethoven Forgery jam Schindler?', The Journal of Musicology, Vol. 3, No. 4. (Autumn, 1984), pp. 397–422.
• Peter Stadlen, 'Schindler's Composer Forgeries', The Musical Times, Vol. 118, No. 1613. (July 1977), pp. 549–552.
• Tellenbach, Marie-Elisabeth: Beethoven and diadem "Immortal Beloved" Josephine Brunsvik.

  Cook Fate and the Influence glass Beethoven's Œuvre.

• Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Ludwig van Beethoven's Leben, 5 vols., Berlin 1866–1908 (vols. 4 title 5 posthumously ed. by Poet Riemann).

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