Alexander Wheelock Thayer [SEP] place of death
Alexander Wheelock Thayer
Alexander Wheelock Thayer (October 22, 1817 in South Natick, Massachusetts, US – July 15, 1897 in Trieste, Italy), was a librarian and journalist who became the author of the first scholarly biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, still after many updatings regarded as a standard work of reference on the composer.
Life.
In the winter of 1838–39 he was a teacher at the Westfield School in Dedham, Massachusetts.
Originally a librarian at Harvard law school, Thayer became aware of many
brought me comfort." Shortly thereafter, he apparently lost consciousness.
Beethoven biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer, in his notebook, recorded Hüttenbrenner's account of Beethoven's death. Hüttenbrenner's eyewitness report is sometimes recast to imply that Beethoven "shook his fist at the heavens" in the moment before death. Since any imputations as to the dying man's emotional state are impossible to verify, they tend to be glossed over or ignored as irrelevant by modern Beethoven scholars.
Autopsy and post-mortem findings.
An autopsy