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Name
  
Theodor Frimmel


Role
  
Biographer

Died
  
December 3, 1928, Vienna, Austria

Theodor von Frimmel, fully Theodor von Frimmel-Traisenau (December 15, 1853, Amstetten – December 3, 1928, Vienna) was an Austrian art historian, musicologist and Beethoven biographer. He was born in Amstetten and eventually settled in Vienna.

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Biography

Theodor von Frimmel was assistant curator at the Imperial Natural History Museum (Hofmuseum) of Vienna until 1893, later taught art history at the Vienna Athenäum and was director of a gallery. He is mainly remember as musicologist for essays on Beethoven's work, life and images.

Works

  • Beethoven und Goethe: eine Studie, 1883;
  • Neue Beethoveniana, 1888;
  • Ludwig van Beethoven, 1901;
  • Beethoven-Studien, München, Georg Müller 1905-1906, (2 vols.);
  • Bemerkungen zur angeblich "kritischen" Ausgabe der Briefe Beethovens, Wien, 1907
  • Beethoven-Jahrbuch, only 1908/1909;
  • Beethoven-Briefe, 1910–1911, (5 vols.);
  • Beethoven im zeitgenössischen Bildnis. Wien, König 1923.
  • Neuausgabe des Beethovens-Werkverzeichnisses von G. Nottebohm/Th. v. Frimmel (new list of Beethoven's work), Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1925;
  • Beethoven-Handbuch, 2 vols., 1926.

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