Theodor von Frimmel, fully Theodor von Frimmel-Traisenau (December 15, 1853, Amstetten – December 3, 1928, Vienna) was an Austrian

Austrians

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 art historian, musicologist and Beethoven biographer. He was born in Amstetten

Amstetten, Lower Austria

Amstetten is a town in Lower Austria. It is the capital of the Amstetten District.-Geography:Is geographically located between 48 ° 07 ' N and 14 ° 52 ' E , at a height of 275 meters , has an area of 52.22 km ² , its population in 2001 was 22,595 inhabitants, with a population density of 441 habs...

 and eventually settled in Vienna

Vienna

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Biography

Theodor von Frimmel was assistant curator at the Imperial Natural History Museum

Imperial Natural History Museum

The Imperial Natural History Museum or Imperial Royal Natural History Court Museum of Austria-Hungary was created by Emperor Franz Joseph I during an extensive reorganization of the museum collections, from 1851–1876, and opened to the public on August 10, 1889.Located in Vienna, the Museum was...

 (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
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
  
  , 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.