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Apr 20, 2020 · The best books on Beethoven, recommended by music writer and author, Jessica Duchen, including contemporary memoirs, biographies and poetic appreciations.
- The Enlightenment
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- Napoleon Bonaparte
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- The Enlightenment
Aug 5, 2014 · 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 ...
- Jan Swafford
- $22.16
- Houghton Mifflin
Sep 8, 2020 · Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast scholarship on this iconic composer, Caeyers brings Beethoven’s world alive with elegant prose, memorable musical descriptions, and vivid depictions of Bonn and Vienna—the cities where Beethoven produced and performed his works.
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- University of California Press
- $28.99
- Jan Caeyers
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Jan 1, 2009 · This new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer’s life and works, written by a renowned conductor and scholar of Beethoven’s music.
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- Hardcover
Equal parts absorbing cultural history and lively biography, Beethoven, A Life paints a complex portrait of the musical genius who redefined the musical style of his day and went on to become one of the great pillars of Western art music.
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Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces is a biographical book written by Laura Tunbridge and published by Viking in 2020. Each chapter uses one of nine compositions of Ludwig van Beethoven in chronological order.