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Beethoven - The Music and the Life (Paperback)
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Beethoven - The Music and the Life (Paperback)
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This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and
biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts.
Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical,
political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and
examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of
achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will-or
at least should-appeal to specialists and generalists in equal
measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary). Finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize. "Lewis Lockwood has written a biography of Beethoven in
which the hours that Beethoven spent writing music-that is, his
methods of working, his interest in contemporary and past
composers, the development of his musical intentions and ideals,
his inner musical life, in short-have been properly integrated with
the external events of his career. The book is invaluable."
-Charles Rosen "Lockwood writes with poetry and clarity-a rare
combination. I especially enjoyed the connection that he makes
between the works of Beethoven and the social and political context
of their creation-we feel closer to Beethoven the man without
losing our wonder at his genius." -Emanuel Ax "The magnum opus of
an illustrious Beethoven scholar. From now on, we will all turn to
Lockwood's Beethoven: The Music and the Life for insight and
instruction." -Maynard Solomon "This is truly the Beethoven
biography for the intelligent reader. Lewis Lockwood speaks in his
preface of writing on Beethoven's works at 'a highly accessible
descriptive level.' But he goes beyond that. His discussion of the
music, based on a deep knowledge of its context and the composition
processes behind it, explains, elucidates, and is not afraid to
evaluate; while the biographical chapters, clearly and unfussily
written, and taking full account of the newest thinking on
Beethoven, align closely with the musical discussion. The result is
a deeply perceptive book that comes as close as can be to
presenting the man and the music as a unity."-Stanley Sadie,
editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians "Impressive
for both its scholarship and its fresh insights, this landmark
work-fully accessible to the interested amateur-immediately takes
its place among the essential references on this composer and his
music."-Bob Goldfarb, KUSC-FM 91.5 "Lockwood writes like an angel:
lucid, enthusiastic, stirring and enlightening. Beethoven has found
his ablest interpreter."-Jonathan Keates, The Spectator "There is
no better survey of Beethoven's compositions for a wide
audience."-Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times Book Review
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