“I learnt that Beethoven was most difficult of access, and would admit no pupil but Ries”
Author
Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries(1784–1838)
Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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- 1845–1846
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In Fuller’s words
“The entertaining memoir of Beethoven by Ries and Wegeler has been, in some measure, made known to us through the English periodicals. I have never seen the book myself.”
When Fuller engaged with Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Wegeler in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Review.
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“As an instance of the justness and undoubting clearness of such a mind as to its own methods, take the following anecdote, from Beethoven’s “Pupil Ries.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 February 1845.
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
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“The entertaining memoir of Beethoven by Ries and Wegeler ... Both this and the Life of Handel I have seen only in the London”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1846—
Lives of the Great Composers
“Lives of the Great Composers”mentioned
“The entertaining memoir of Beethoven by Ries and Wegeler has been, in some measure, made known to us through the English periodicals. I have never seen the book myself.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p263
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p263; page given is to the 1869 reprint.