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

by George Alexander Fischer

• Rasoumowsky, Count, [59], [63], [65], [108], [192],
  • Entertains Empress of Russia, [108].
• Rasoumowsky quartets, [65]-[66], [192],
  • Adagio of the second, [65].
• Religion and General-bass, [219].
• Religious sentiment, the, [219].
• Renunciation, [163].
• Requiem Mass, [140], [160], [161], [209].
• Ries, Ferdinand, [44], [62], [82], [83], [84], [135], [180],
  • Pupil of Beethoven, [80],
  • Prolific composer, [85],
  • efforts for Beethoven while in London, [181]-[182].
• Ries, Franz, [12], [17], [82].
• Rochlitz, [92], [153], [156].
• Romberg, [16], [105].
• Rossini, [79], [153], [166],
  • calls on Beethoven, [139].
• Ruins of Athens, [155].
• Russia, Emperor of, [36], [107], [108], [154],
  • Empress of, [107], [108].

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• Saint-Saens, [232].
• Saint-Simon, and the strenuous life, [206].
• Salieri, [105].
• Satanas in the kitchen, [185].
• Saxony, King of, [154], [213].
• Second period, works of, [40],
  • characterized by gayety, [100].
• Second Symphony, [26], [36], [37],
  • Larghetto of, [36].
• Seebald, Amalie, [87], [88],
  • facsimile of letter to her, opp. page [88].
• Sehnsucht (Goethe's), [142].
• Seidl, Anton, [166].
• Sensenman, the, [116].
• Seventh Symphony, [95], [96], [109],
  • Dance element in, [99],
  • First performance of, [105],
  • Coda of Vivace of, [97],
  • Hungarian peasant dance in, [96],
  • Weber's strictures on, [159].
• Scherzo, [33], [34], [132], [133],
  • Peculiar to Beethoven, [133],
  • developed by Beethoven, [132],
  • makes sport of humanity in, [133]-[134].
• Schiller, [16], [131], [141], [148], [165].
• Schindler, [59], [88], [127], [136], [152], [154], [156]-[158], [168], [169], [171], [176], [186], [188], [203], [205], [206], [207], [209], [210], [213],
  • Beethoven's biographer, [179].
• Schroeder-Devrient, [155], [159].
• Schopenhauer, [22], [77], [143], [174], [229], [236],
  • and humor, [134].
• Schubert, [8], [127], [177], [206], [210], [211],
  • Reverence of, for Beethoven, [178],
  • Calls on Beethoven, [178],
  • Songs of, [206].
• Schuman, [136], [232].
• Schuppanzich, [168], [176], [206].
• Schott, music publishers, [208], [209].
• Scott, Walter, [134],
  • Kenilworth, [209].
• Seyfried, [22], [64], [135], [212].
• Shakespeare, [13], [68], [134], [139], [141], [223], [225],
  • Comedies of, [68],
  • the Tempest, [152],
  • a Universal man, [227],
  • Wagner's archetype in youth, [227].
• Siegfried, [231].
• Sight playing, from Ms., [63], [64].
• Sixth Symphony (Pastoral), [14], [73], [78]-[79], [95], [122],
  • Dance tunes in, [78],
  • Dramatization of, [79],
  • Nature-poem, a, [78], [79],
  • Storm in, [78], [79].
• Socrates, [161].
• Solitary, Beethoven, the (quoted), [227].
• Sonata in A♭, [35],
  • Fantasia, language of Resignation, [61],
  • Kreutzer, [44],
  • "Moonlight," [35],
  • opus [111], [187],
  • Pathetique, [26],
  • Pastorale, [35],
  • Waldstein, [11], [18], [44],
  • opus, [102], [129].
• Sonata, the (form), [100].
• Sonatas, [33], [36], [39],
  • Last (opus [109], [110], [111]), [155],
  • Lofty imaginings of, [155],
  • Wondrous second movement of op. [111], [158],
  • F minor and D minor, [152].
• Sonnleithner, [49], [56].
• Sontag, [160], [170].
• Spohr, [105].
• Stadler, Abbe, [139], [167].
• St. Just, [133].
• St. Stephen's, Vienna, [22].
• Streicher, Madame, [185], [186].
• Stumpf, [139], [207], [209].
• Stutterheim, Field-marshal von, [198], [208], [209].
• Suite, the, earliest orchestral form, [99].
• Süsmayer, [31].
• Swieten, Baron von, [27], [59].

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• Tacitus, [4], [46].
• Tact, woman's, [12].
• Tenth Symphony (proposed), [170], [200],
  • Adagio of, [173],
  • Allegro of, a Bacchic festival, [173],
  • Religious in character, [172].
• Tetralogy, variations in, [157].
• Thackeray, [134].
• Thayer, A.W., [59], [90].
• Third Leonore overture, [56], [229].
• Third Mass (proposed), Kyrie of, [172]
• Third period, mysticism of, [100].
• Third Symphony (Eroica), [11], [40] et seq., [68], [71], [73], [100], [104], [123],
  • Composed in spirit of altruism, [43],
  • First dedicated to Napoleon, [43]-[44],
  • Last movement of, [158],
  • Unique as a Symphony, [43].
• Thomas, Theodore, [166].
• Thoreau, [3], [113], [123], [161], [176], [218], [227].
• Thun, Countess, [62].
• Tolstoy, [45].
• Tone-figure, [234].
• Tone-pictures, [148].
• Transposing, [31].
• Treitschke, [106].
• Trombones, [211],
  • for Solemnity, [230].
• Turin, [93].

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• Unger, Fräulein, [170].
• Unrest, [4].

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• Vander Stucken, [166].
• Variation form, [231],
  • in the Diabelli Waltzes, [157],
  • in Beethoven's Symphonies, [157],
  • in Beethoven's Sonatas, [157].
• Vienna, bombarded by French, [85],
  • Conservatory of, [118],
  • Italian element in, [58],
  • Population in Beethoven's time, [58],
  • Musical atmosphere of, [9], [10], [65],
  • Society, attitude toward Beethoven, [60],
  • its student element, [104].
• Viennese, virtuosity of, [62]-[63],
  • aristocracy, [149].
• Vittoria, battle of, [102], [103].
• Voltaire, [218].

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