Download or read book Thayer's Life of Beethoven written by Alexander Wheelock Thayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-04-12 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although some portions of Thayer's original text have been deleted because recent Beethoven research has proved them inaccurate, "the majority of the text used consists of the coordinated treatment of Thayer's notes and manuscript by these three editors [H. Deiters, H. Riemann, and H. Krehbiel]" with additions and corrections by the present editor.