Beethoven: The Universal Composer

Author:   Edmund Morris ,  John McDonough (Universit?t des Saarlandes)
Publisher:   Recorded Books
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Publication Date:   28 March 2011
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In Beethoven , Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of the great composer, brings him to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces, such as his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies. With sensitivity and insight, Edmund Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived 'on the other side of silence.'

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Author:   Edmund Morris ,  John McDonough (Universit?t des Saarlandes)
Publisher:   Recorded Books
Imprint:   Recorded Books
ISBN:  

9781449868680


ISBN 10:   1449868681
Publication Date:   28 March 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Downloadable audio file
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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