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Wilhelm von Lenz (born 20 May 1809 in Riga - died 7 January 1883 in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German Russian official and writer. Wilhelm von Lenz was a friend and student of many mid-century Romantic composers, including Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz, Lenz's most important and influential work was an early biography of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, entitled Beethoven et ses trois styles (1855), written in response to the disparagement of Beethoven by Alexander Ulybyshev in his Nouvelle biographie de Mozart (1843). Lenz promoted the idea (already suggested by earlier figures such as François-Joseph Fétis) that Beethoven's musical style be divided into three characteristic periods. Lenz's periodisation, with minor changes, is still widely used today by musicologists in discussing Beethoven's compositions.[1]

Selected works

• Beethoven. Eine Kunststudie, Band 1, Kassel 1855 (Digitalisat)
• Beethoven. Eine Kunststudie, Band 2, Kassel 1855 (Digitalisat)
• Beethoven. Eine Kunststudie, Band 3, Hamburg 1860 (Digitalisat)

Writings

• Great Piano Virtuosos of Our Time. London: Kahn & Averill. 1983. ISBN 0-900707-77-1.

References

External links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm von Lenz in the German National Library catalogue
• Biography, Musiklexikon (in Russian)

На других языках

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[de] Wilhelm von Lenz

Christian Wilhelm von Lenz (russisch Вильгельм Фёдорович Ленц/ Wilhelm Fjodorowitsch Lenz, auch unter dem Vornamen Василий/ Wassili; * 1. Junijul. / 13. Juni 1808greg. in Riga; † 19.jul. / 31. Januar 1883greg. in Petersburg) war ein deutsch-baltischer Musikschriftsteller und Mitglied des kaiserlich russischen Staatsrates. Er befasste sich insbesondere mit Beethoven.

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- [en] Wilhelm von Lenz

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[ru] Ленц, Вильгельм

Вильгельм (Василий Фёдорович[2]) Ленц (1809—1883) — пианист, музыкальный критик и музыковед [3].

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