Ludwig Van Beethoven: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Ludwig Van Beethoven, credited to Pitts Sanborn, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Pitts Sanborn. Read in English by David Wales The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have only expanded the work a little by incorporating here and there matter about other major works of Beethoven’s, especially some of the concertos, overtures, piano and vocal works, besides certain of the greater specimens of his chamber music.,,, I have followed it in order to supply a rather fuller picture of the composer’s creative achievements. - Summary by Editor's Note (Herbert F. Peyser)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Ludwig Van Beethoven
• Author credits: Pitts Sanborn
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:37:25

Catalogue topics

• music
• Beethoven
• composer

Track guide

1. 00 - Editor's Note — 1:30
2. 01 - Part 1: Symphony #1, in C Major, Op 21; First Three Piano Concertos; Symphony No. 2, in D Major, Opus 36; Symphony No. 3, in E-Flat Major (Eroica), Opus 55; Symphony No. 4, in B-Flat Major, Opus 60; Sonatas — 27:53
3. 02 - Part 2: Symphony No. 5, In C-Major, Opus 67; Fidelio And The Leonore Overtures; Symphony No. 7, In A-Major, Opus 92; Overtures; Symphony No. 8, In F Major, Opus 93; Mass In C Major And The Missa Solemnis — 36:06
4. 03 - Part 3: Symphony No. 9, In D-Minor, With Final Chorus On Schiller’s ‘Ode To Joy,’ Opus 125; Chamber Music; String Quartets — 31:55

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