Schindler biography beethoven kids

After Beethoven's death in , Schindler moved to Budapest where he worked as a music teacher, returning to Vienna in Later editions appeared in , and In —42 Schindler visited Paris, and met some of the famous musicians of the day. Schindler possessed a great part of Beethoven's estate, in particular around conversation books that Beethoven used to converse with friends in his later years.

Beethoven's estate, purchased by the Royal Prussian Library in Berlin in , included conversation books. Anton Schindler : Beethoven's first biographer All Beethoven scholars have reason to be grateful to Schindler - and angry with him - in equal measure. Schindler was a violinist who introduced himself into Beethoven's circle in about He made himself indispensable to Beethoven, who was by now totally deaf.

One such relationship was with Johann Nepomuk Hummel, a fellow composer, and friend of Beethoven. Schindler played a vital role in facilitating their communications, allowing for creative exchanges that benefitted both musicians. Schindler often found himself coordinating with doctors and other healthcare providers, ensuring that Beethoven received the best possible treatment.

Schindler retained the remainder, which were likely destroyed. It was demonstrated that Schindler had falsified entries in Beethoven's Conversation Books into which he inserted many spurious entries after the composer's death in , [8] and that he had exaggerated his period of close association with Beethoven his claimed eleven or twelve years was probably no more than five or six.

It is also believed that Schindler burned more than half of Beethoven's conversation books and removed countless pages from those that survived.