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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

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Jan Swafford

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Jan Swafford's biographies 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.

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A fascinating celebration of one of classical music's all-time great composers, and Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the 2014

Author description

Jan Swafford (born 1946) is a writer and broadcaster, and the award-winning author of biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as The Vintage Guide to Classical Music. He is also a composer, and teaches composition, theory and music history at The Boston Conservatory. He studied at Harvard and the Yale School of Music.

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ISBN : 9780571312566
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Imprint : Faber & Faber
Publication date : October 2015
Dimensions : 216mm X 135mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : October 2015
Product Type : books

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Bind : Paperback
Edition : Main
Language : English
Dewey classification : 780.92 B
Pages : 1104
Author : Jan Swafford