San Antonio College Library

Selections from the documentary record left by Beethoven himself, interspersed with comments on the composer's personality and music from the letters and journals of his contemporaries. In one volume, it charts every aspect of Beethoven's life and work, from Mozart's prophetic remarks on meeting him as a young man in 1787 to Grillparzer's oration at his funeral in 1827, as well as highlighting the key features of the social, cultural and political...

Few figures have influenced 20th-century music as much as Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. Their letters, one of the most important sources of information about the background to their music, are here published for the first time. The editors have transcribed, translated and annotated more than 800 letters and from this vast body of material have selected 370 that reflect the lives and times of these two great composers. The letters reveal much about...