Reading & research

Reference works

Oxford music online [electronic resource].
[Oxford, England] : Oxford University Press
See the comprehensive Grove article on Beethoven's life and works.
Das Werk Beethovens; thematisch-bibliographisches Verzeichnis seiner sämtlichen vollendeten Kompositionen. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers abgeschlossen und hrsg. von Hans Halm.
München, G. Henle Verlag [c1955]
Music Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML134.B41 K56
The classic thematic catalogue. For each work, you'll find incipits for each movement, notes on the compositional process, location and notes regarding manuscript source material, and bibliographical information on first editions.
Werke / Beethoven ; herausgegeben von Beethoven-Archiv, Bonn, unter Leitung von Joseph Schmidt-Görg.
München : G. Henle, 1961-<20011 >
Music Library » Stacks (Limited loan) » M3 .B41 W9 V.1:1
The complete works, published by Henle Verlag, 1961-2011. This set of printed scores includes extensive notes on the editing process for each work.
Beethoven and his world : a biographical dictionary / Peter Clive.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Music Library » Stacks » ML410 .B4 C62 2001
Provides information on more than 450 persons associated with Beethoven.
Chronology of Western classical music / Charles J. Hall.
New York : Routledge, 2002.
Music Library » Reference (non-circulating) » ML161 .H17 2002 V.1
Place Beethoven's life and works in the context of European arts and culture.

On the web

The Beethoven Gateway (Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies)
"A free online resource that helps direct people interested in Beethoven to books, articles, scores, and other sources on the composer. Although it functions primarily as a catalog of the collections of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, its also serves the broader purpose of providing a comprehensive and fully-indexed bibliography of materials relating to Beethoven, from a wide range of subject areas"--website.

Biography

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  1. Quand je pense que Beethoven est mort alors que tant de crétins vivent : suivi de Kiki van Beethoven

    Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. 2010

    Green Library » Stacks » ML410 .B41 S297 2010

  2. Beiträge zu Biographie und Schaffensprozess bei Beethoven : Rainer Cadenbach zum Gedenken

    herausgegeben von Jürgen May.. 2011

    Music Library » Stacks » ML410 .B42 B458 2011

  3. Beethoven, ritratti e immagini : uno studio sull'iconografia

    Benedetta Saglietti. 2010

    Music Library » Stacks » ML410 .B4 S135 2010

Criticism and interpretation

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  1. Beethoven-Rezeption in Frankreich : von ihren Anfängen bis zum Untergang des Second Empire

    Beate Angelika Kraus. 2001

    Music Library » Stacks » ML410 .B42 K68 2001

  2. Aesthetics, theory and history in the works of Adolph Bernhard Marx

    Scott G. Burnham. 1989

    Music Library » Stacks » ML423 .M37 B8 1988A

  3. Textes sur les symphonies de Beethoven

    Hector Berlioz. 2005

    Music Library » Stacks » ML410 .B4 B357 2005

Analysis and appreciation

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  1. Musical form in the age of Beethoven : selected writings on theory and method

    A.B. Marx ; edited and translated by Scott Burnham. 1997

    Music Library » Stacks » MT6 .M313 1998

  2. A quantitative study of harmonic similarities in certain specified works of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner

    [by] Philip B. Norman. 1945

    Music Library » Stacks » MT90 .N843

  3. Classical form : a theory of formal functions for the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

    William E. Caplin. 1998

    Music Library » Stacks » MT58 .C37 1998

Music and culture in Vienna and environs

Empress Marie Therese and music at the Viennese court, 1792-1807 / John A. Rice.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Music Library » Stacks » ML246.3 .R523 2003
Musical life in Biedermeier Vienna / Alice M. Hanson.
London : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Music Library » Stacks » ML246.8 .V6 H25 1985
Concert life in Haydn's Vienna : aspects of a developing musical and social institution / by Mary Sue Morrow.
Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, c1989.
Music Library » Stacks » ML246.8 .V6 M98 1989
Keyboard instruments in eighteenth-century Vienna / Richard Maunder.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Music Library » Stacks » ML549 .M38 1998
Listening to reason : culture, subjectivity, and nineteenth-century music / Michael P. Steinberg.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
Music Library » Stacks » ML196 .S74 2004