String Quartet Op. 59 No. 1
String Quartet Op. 59 No. 2
String Quartet Op. 59 No. 3
Beethoven: Late Period (pp. 38-42)
Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 101 (1815)
Piano Sonata in E Major, Op. 109 (1818)
Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 (1818)
Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 111 (1818)
String Quartet No 14, op. 131, in C-sharp Minor
Video of String Quartet No. 14, op. 131, in C-sharp Minor:
Leopold Kupelwieser, Charade among the Schubert Circle in Atzenbrugg: Expulsion from Paradise (1821). Here is a blog post detailing the history of scholars' misidentification of Schubert in this watercolor. The post includes a color reproduction of the painting.
Nicolò Paganini: Lithograph: "Paganini in prison" (1830)
This German website provides both a table of contents for all published issues of Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung, the German music periodical published weekly between 1798 and 1848, and links to all them on archival sites like Google Books. Here is the table of contents (try searching the text for your favorite composer!). Links to the issues are here. An excellent resource for research papers.
Schubert's Manuscripts
This website contains high-quality scans of autographs of hundreds of Schubert's scores (including "Gretchen am Spinnrade"), as well as letters and other primary materials.
Beethoven-Haus
The digital archive of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany, offers scans of Beethoven's letters, autographs and early editions of his works, and portraiture--many accompanied by lengthy captions.
Links to Worldcat entries except where specified.
Burnham, Scott. Beethoven Hero. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Dahlhaus, Carl. Beethoven: Approaches to His Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Deutsch, Otto Erich, ed. Schubert: Memoirs by His Friends, Rosamond Ley and John Nowell, trans. London: A.C. Black, 1958.
Deutsch, Otto Erich, ed. The Schubert Reader. New York: Norton, 1947)
Erickson, Raymond, ed. Schubert’s Vienna, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997.
Forbes, Elliot, ed. Thayer’s Life of Beethoven. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Gibbs, Christopher, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Schubert. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Gibbs, Christopher H. The Life of Schubert. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Hanson, Alice M. Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Metzner, Paul. Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.
Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, rev. exp. ed. New York: Norton, 1998.
Rumph, Stephen. Beethoven after Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.
Scott, Derek B. Sounds of the Metropolis: The 19th-Century Popular Music Revolution in London, New York, Paris, and Vienna. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Solie, Ruth. Music in Other Words: Victorian Conversations. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2004.
Solomon, Maynard. Beethoven, rev. ed. New York: Schirmer, 1998.
Solomon, Maynard. “Franz Schubert and the Peacocks of Benvenuto Cellini.” 19th-Century Music 12 (1989), 193–206. [Link to Jstor]
Solomon, Maynard. Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
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Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Work: String Quartet in C# Minor, op. 131, Movements 1 & 2
Album Title: Beethoven Complete String Quartets, volume 9
Performer: Kodaly Quartet
Label: Naxos
Tracks: 5-6
NAXOS Catalog/CD Number: 8.554594
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