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An outstanding biography of Beethoven.
This is an outstanding biography of Beethoven.
Beethoven
By
Jan Swafford
Read by
Michael Prichard
Release:
01/05/2015
Release:
01/05/2015
Release:
01/05/2015
Release:
01/05/2015
Runtime:
39h 2m
Runtime:
39h 2m
Runtime:
39h 2m
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Indeed, readers will want to refer to the book often when they listen to Beethoven. A marvelous achievement.
Ray Olson, Booklist
Jan Swafford's biographies 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.
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.
Release:
2015-01-05
2015-01-05
2015-01-05
2015-01-05
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
39h 2m
39h 2m
39h 2m
39h 2m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
1.8 lb
0.6 lb
1.85 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781494577698
9798200026296
9798200026302
9781494507695
Publisher:
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
Tantor
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