Author
Anton Felix Schindler is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, journals, and manuscripts (1840–1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Lives of the Great Composers, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Anton Felix Schindler’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Good. Mr Schindler is much vexed at Ries's sprightly anecdotes... He also finds Ries was too young, to see Beethoven...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Multi-sentence excerpted passage summarizing/quoting Schindler's biography content, engagement_type Excerpted with sustained text.
“Ich fand Beethoven mit dem Promemoria in der hand: Er überreichte es mit ungewöhnlicher Ruhe mir...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
Multi-clause verbatim German excerpt copied from Schindler's biography, a sustained passage under 'Excerpted'.
“THIS book bears on its outside the title, "Life of Beethoven, by Moscheles." It is really only a translation of Schindler... * The Life of Beethoven, including his Correspondence with his Friends, numerous characteristic Traits, and Remarks on his Musical Works. Edited by Ignace Moscheles, Pianist to His Royal Highness Prince Albert.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Life of Beethoven / What first influenced Moscheles was the Sonata pathetique not having money to buy he copied it”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).
“THIS book bears on its outside the title, "Life of Beethoven, by Moscheles." It is really only a translation of Schindler...”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860. · p71, 78, 80
The title and editor were identified in a footnote at lines 2947-2950.
“When I read his life I said I will never repine. When I heard this symphony I said I will triumph more and more above the deepening abysses. The life is large which can receive a Beethoven.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller writes 'When I read his life' immediately after describing hearing Beethoven's symphony; 'his life' = biography of Beethoven. The most likely candidate is Anton Schindler's biography, the principal life available in 1841: published in German 1840 and in English translation (by Ignaz Moscheles) in 1841.
“Good.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Beethoven." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“And yet," said Beethoven at such a time, there is the godlike in man"!”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Inferred Fuller quotes a saying attributed to Beethoven, introduced as "said Beethoven at such a time," and Hudspeth identified the source as Anton Schindler's Biographie von Ludwig van Beethoven.
“It is really only a translation of Schindler’s, and it seems quite unfair to bring Moscheles so much into the foreground merely because his name is celebrated in England.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 February 1845. · 7 February 1845
“which I shall refer is the life of Beethoven by Schindler, to whom”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
“That to which I shall refer is the life of Beethoven by Schindler, to whom Beethoven confided the task of writing it, in case of the failure of another friend, whom he somewhat preferred.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p263; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
“The one he did compose for such a purpose, the " Glorreiche Augenblick," Schindler speaks of as one of the least excellent of his works.”
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p276; page given is to the 1869 reprint.
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“When I read Beethoven's life, I said, "I will never repine.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred Margaret Fuller's reading of Anton Schindler's The Life of Beethoven (1840) profoundly impacted her outlook, inspiring the reflection, "When I read Beethoven's life, I said, I will never repine." This biographical account, the most substantial work on the composer available in English during Fuller's time, likely provided the source for her statement of resolute optimism in the face of adversity.