LATE BEETHOVEN LATE BEETHOVEN - Luisa Guembes-Buchanan

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I cannot finish this commentary without the following
quotation, for it express more eloquently than I ever could
what Beethoven and his music mean to me: “For Beethoven
continues to require that we grapple with him, continues to
ask much of us, to call us out. This, more than anything,
is why we cannot let him go: his music remains a sounding
provocation to what we are pleased to think of as our better
selves”. 46
En d n o t E s
1 César Vallejo, Poemas Humanos: El Buen Sentido, trans. and
ed., Clayton Eshelman (California: University of California
Press, 2007), p. 326-327.
2 Martin Cooper, Beethoven: The Last Decade, 1817-1727
(Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 416.
(hereafter cited as Cooper, Beethoven).
3 Ibid., p. 148.
4 William Kindermann, Beethoven (Oxford, New York: Oxford
University Press, 1997), p. 195. (hereafter cited as Kindermann,
Beethoven).
5 Emily Anderson, ed. and trans., The Letters of Beethoven
(London : Macmillan, 1961), no. 742.
6 Cooper, Beethoven, p. 138.
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7 Kindermann, Beethoven, pp. 9, 18.
8 Stefan Kunze, ed., Beethoven: Die Werke im Spiegel seiner
Zeit Gesammelte Konzertberichte und Rezeptionen bis 1830
(Laaber: Laaber Verlag, 1987), p. 344.
9 Mark Kaplan, “Beethoven’s chamber music with piano: seeking
unity in mixed sonorities,” The Cambridge Companion
to Beethoven ed., Glenn Stanley (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000), p. 146.
10 Ludwig van Beethoven, Briefwechsel Gesamtausgabe,
vol. 4, (Munich: G. Henle Verlag), p. 101.
“ … was mich angeht, so bin ich oft in verzweiflung u. mögte
mein Leben endigen … wenn der Zustand nicht endigt bin ich
künftiges Jahr nicht in London aber vielleicht im Grab.”
11 Kastner and Kapp, eds., Ludwig van Beethoven
Sämtliche Briefe (Leipzig: Hesse & Becker, 1923), vol. I, p. 859.
12 Kindermann, Beethoven p. 203.
13 Cooper, Beethoven, p.165.
14 Wilhelm von Lenz, Kritischer Katalog sämtlicher Werke
Ludwig van Beethoven mit Analysen derselben (Hamburg:
Hoffmann & Campe, 1860), vol. IV, p. 41.
15 Kindermann, Beethoven, p. 207.
16 Charles Rosen, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, a Short Companion
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 225.
17 Ibid., p. 226.
18 Donald Francis Tovey, A Companion to Beethoven’s Pianoforte
Sonatas (London: The Associated Board of The R.A.M., and
The R.T.M., 1944), pp. 243-244.
19 Kindermann, Beethoven p. 208.
20 Charles Rosen, The Classical Style, Expanded Edition. 1977,
p. 433.