Beethoven
Author: Jan Swafford
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618054749
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 1077
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Language: un
Pages: 1077
Pages: 1077
Provides a detailed overview of the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, from Enlightenment-era Bonn to the musical capital of Vienna, describing the composer's career, ill health, and romantic rejections.
Language: un
Pages: 832
Pages: 832
From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a child, the neglect, the pauper's grave. None of these myths are true, at least not at face value. Wolfgang Amadè Mozart is not primarily a myth-busting book, but in
Language: un
Pages: 832
Pages: 832
Books about Wolfgang Amadè Mozart
Language: en
Pages: 1072
Pages: 1072
Jan Swafford’s biographies of 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
Language: en
Pages: 272
Pages: 272
How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in which poetry and prose
