This book was awarded as the Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year. "Magisterial, warm, and engaging...A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity...Jan Swafford is to be saluted." (Independent). 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 ...
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This book was awarded as the Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the Year. "Magisterial, warm, and engaging...A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity...Jan Swafford is to be saluted." (Independent). 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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This is a superb biography of Ludwig van Beethoven. The one unanswered question, which has eluded everyone to date, but may yet be answered one day, is the name of the lady known as 'The Immortal Beloved', to whom Beethoven wrote passionate letters. Apart from that, this mega biography, in every sense, tells us all that is known about the life, works and philosophy of the great composer.
