WorkAnton Felix Schindler

The Life of Beethoven

Mentioned

Documented 1845–1846

Books • Essays

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1845—

Review.

“Review.”

mentioned

“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

1846—

Lives of the Great Composers

“Lives of the Great Composers”

mentioned

“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.”

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.