Author

Ferdinand Ries; Franz Gerhard Wegeler(1765–1848)

Ferdinand Ries; Franz Gerhard Wegeler is documented in Fuller’s books and manuscripts (1843–1846). One work is named, most often in On Beethoven, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
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Books · Manuscripts
Documented
1843–1846
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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“Mr Schindler is much vexed at Ries's sprightly anecdotes and Bettina's dramatic sketches; He also Finks Ries was too young, to see Beethoven, yet gives not in any important regard a different impression from that made by them.”
Biographische Notizen über Ludwig van Beethoven [Biographical Notes on Ludwig van Beethoven] · On Beethoven · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Ferdinand Ries; Franz Gerhard Wegeler

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Ries in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1843—

On Beethoven

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analyzed · readManuscript page
“Mr Schindler is much vexed at Ries's sprightly anecdotes and Bettina's dramatic sketches; He also Finks Ries was too young, to see Beethoven, yet gives not in any important regard a different impression from that made by them.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Beethoven." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

1846—

Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”
analyzed
“He is very indignant at the more sprightly sketches of Ries and Bettina Brentano.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p264

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p264; page given is to the 1869 reprint.