Excerpt from Beethoven's Piano-Playing, With an Essay on the Execution of the Trill: Written as an Introduction to a New Critical; Edition of Beethoven's Piano-Forte Concertos Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, by Alexander Wheelock Thayer. Edition in German, after the original manuscript, by H. Deiters in Bonn (according to the Preface). - Vol. I Berlin, Ferdinand Schneider; 1866. - Vol. II Berlin, W. Weber, 1872. - Vol. III (down to the year Berlin, do., 1879. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.