Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography / Jan Swafford.
Swafford, Jan, author.
2014
ML410.B4 .S934 2014eb
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Title Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography / Jan Swafford.
Author Swafford, Jan, author.
ISBN 9780544245587 (electronic book)
9780618054749
Published Boston, Massachusetts : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 1077 pages) : illustrations
Call Number ML410.B4 .S934 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 780.92
Summary 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 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. Throughout, Swafford offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works [Publisher description]
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Bonn, electorate of Cologne
Father, mother, son
Reason and revolution
Loved in turn
Golden age
A journey and a death
Bildung
Stem and book
Unreal city
Chains of craftsmanship
Generalissimo
Virtuoso
Fate's hammer
The good, the beautiful, and the melancholy
The new path
Oh, fellow men
Heaven and Earth will tremble
Geschrieben auf Bonaparte
Our hearts were stirred
That haughty beauty
Schemes
Darkness to light
Thus be enabled to create
Myths and men
My angel, my self
We finite beings
The queen of the night
What is difficult
The sky above, the law within
Qui venit in nomine Domini
You millions
Ars longa, vita brevis
Plaudite, amici
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