Theodor von Frimmel

Theodor von Frimmel, fully Theodor von Frimmel-Traisenau, was an Austrian art historian, musicologist and Beethoven biographer. He was born in Amstetten and eventually settled in Vienna, where he died.

Biography

Theodor von Frimmel was born in Amstetten, Lower Austria. He was assistant curator at the Imperial Natural History Museum of Vienna until 1893, later taught art history at the Vienna Athenäum and was director of a gallery. He is mainly remembered as a musicologist for essays on Beethoven's work, life and images.

Works

Beethoven und Goethe: eine Studie, 1883Neue Beethoveniana, 1888Ludwig van Beethoven, 1901Beethoven-Studien, München, Georg Müller 1905–1906, Bemerkungen zur angeblich "kritischen" Ausgabe der Briefe Beethovens, Wien, 1907Beethoven-Jahrbuch, only 1908/1909Beethoven-Briefe, 1910–1911, Beethoven im zeitgenössischen Bildnis. Wien, König 1923Neuausgabe des Beethovens-Werkverzeichnisses von G. Nottebohm/Th. v. Frimmel, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1925Beethoven-Handbuch, 2 vols., 1926