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Beethoven - Anguish and Triumph (Paperback, Main)
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Beethoven - Anguish and Triumph (Paperback, Main)
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Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes
Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable
of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new
biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to
get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the
world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used
in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary
ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and
imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford
then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where
Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension,
crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and 'fate's hammer', his
ever-encroaching deafness. At the time of his death he was so
widely celebrated that over ten thousand people attended his
funeral. This book is a biography of Beethoven the man and
musician, not the myth, and throughout, Swafford - himself a
composer - offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works.
More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard
Beethoven biography for years to come.
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