American Choral Review Archive

This study of Beethoven's choral music was compiled for the Bulletin of The American Choral Foundation in 1959 (Vol. II, No. 3), and appears here revised in various details. The bibliography of Beethoven's choral music is separated from the introductory discussion and placed at the end, but the original plan of listing works by choral performance media has been retained. Containing the first catalogue of Beethoven's choral works to appear in the English language, it anticipated the listing of works published in the author's distinguished edition of Thayer's Life of Beethoven, the classical text of Beethoven biography (Princeton University Press, 1964).