Beethoven, a character study; together with Wagner's indebtedness to Beethoven

by George Alexander Fischer

• C minor Symphony (see Fifth Symphony).
• Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, [141].
• Carlsbad, [92], [93].
• Carlyle on Goethe, [90],
  • on Jean Paul, [101].
• Castle Garden, [165].
• Celestial music, [232], [235].
• Chamberlain, H.S., [120].
• Chamber-music, [46], [63], [65], [85], [192],
  • Variations in, [157].
• Character, and environment, [116].
• Cherubini, [57], [66], [123]; Requiem, [140], [212].
• Chopin, Improvising, [28].
• Choral Fantasia, [29].
• Christianity, [4], [143].
• Cirrhosis, [213],
  • Dropsical accumulations in, [207],
  • Cause of, [213],
  • not transmissible, [214].
• Clementi, Sonatas, [139].
• Cologne, [17].
• Concert, Spirituel, of Vienna, [178], [179],
  • of Paris, [14].
• Congress of Vienna, [107] et seq.
• Coriolanus overture, [14], [75], [124], [229].
• Corsican, the young, [41].
• Critics on Second Symphony, [36],
  • Seventh Symphony, [159].
• Czerny, [29], [66], [80], [96], [127], [128], [130], [131], [140], [159], [167], [207], [211],
  • Teacher of young Karl, [110].

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• Dance, the, [99],
  • the, favorite musical form, [157].
• Dante, [77].
• Damrosch, Dr. Leopold, [166].
• De Profundus, [151].
• Diabelli, [157], [167], [187].
• Dietrichstein, Count, [172].
• Dignity, of the artist, [2].
• Don Giovanni, [9], [48], [139], [140].
• Dönhoff, Graf von, [94].

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• Egmont music, [92], [106], [142], [156], [226], [229].
• Eighth Symphony, [95], [98], [100], [106], [145],
  • Dance element in, [99].
• Eisfeld, Theo, [166].
• Elector of Cologne, [4], [5], [13], [24],
  • his Orchestra, [15], [16], [18], [82].
• Eliot, George, [134].
• Elysian Fields, [193].
• Emerson, [77], [145], [147], [148], [228].
• England, [103], [106], [107].
• Erdödy, Countess, [60], [61].
• Erlkönig, Beethoven's setting of, [142].
• Eroica Symphony (see Third Symphony).
• Ertmann, Baroness, [60], [61], [80], [128].
• Esterhazy, Prince, [75]-[76],
  • Princess Marie, [76],
  • the Princes, [51].
• Eucharist, [232].
• Euryanthe, [159], [160].
• Eustachian tubes, office of, [214].

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• Fate, struggle with, [163],
  • Relentless, [218],
  • Propitiated, [184],
  • and Destiny, [218].
• Fates, the, [204], [220].
• Fatherland, Poets of, [14].
• Faust, [38], [156], [157], [162], [200].
• Fichte (quoted), [219].
• Fidelio, [11], [48], [98], [155],
  • libretto of, [49]-[50],
  • First production of, [54], [55],
  • revision of, [56], [74], [75], [98], [106], [123], [155], [159],
  • dedication of piano score, [107],
  • its Spanish background, [49].
• Fielding and humor, [134].
• Fifth Symphony (C minor), [14], [68], [73], [76], [77], [152].
• First Symphony, [33], [34], [37].
• Fischer, [225].
• Förster, teacher of Beethoven, [63].
• Fourth Symphony, [66]-[68],
  • Serenity of, [67],
  • Philosophic import of, [68].
• France, [42], [43], [107].
• France, King of (Louis XVIII), [45], [154], [155].
• Freemasonry, among musicians, [10].
• Freischütz, [139].
• French Revolution, [3], [4], [41], [133].
• Friends of music, Society of, [129].
• Friendship, [176].
• Frimmel von, [180], [215].
• Fugue, the, [124], [125], [129],
  • of the C♯ minor quartet, [121],
  • Credo of Mass in D, [153].
• Fuller, Margaret (footnote), [181].

[Index]

• Gayety, [100].
• Galaxy of virtuosi, [17].
• Galitzin, Prince, and last quartets, [192]-[194],
  • and Mass in D, [192].
• Genius, prerogative of, [230].
• Germanic Order, [10].
• Germans, the, [104].
• Gewandhaus Concerts, [226].
• Glacis, the, [204], [210].
• Glück, [79].
• Goethe, [13], [38], [80], [88], [90], [101], [111], [125], [129], [141], [191], [212], [217],
  • Worldly wisdom of, [90],
  • as Courtier, [91],
  • Councillor, [92],
  • Spiritual mentor, [162].
• Gothic architecture, [143].
• Greece, [143].
• Greek Classics, [140]-[141].
• Grillparzer, [160].

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