The Life of Beethoven (Musical Lives)
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Review
'The Life of Beethoven by David Wyn Jones in the Cambridge Musical Lives series is so clear to a non-specialist and so elegant as it weaves the public and private lives together, that I intend to get all the other books in the series.' Antonia Fraser, The Sunday Times
'Here, at last, is a Beethoven who behaves like a real composer. That he does so is thanks to the careful accumulation of circumstantial detail with which Wyn Jones, a dispassionate and even-handed historian, fleshes out his subject's life.' BBC Music Magazine
' ... this book gives a better, more rounded picture of the Viennese environment in Beethoven's years there than any other Beethoven biography I know.' The Times Higher Literary Supplement
Book Description
This account of Beethoven reveals the life and times of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society--in addition to the effects of Beethoven's increasing deafness and his difficult relationships with both patrons and the musical institutions of the day--a varied and dynamic picture of the life and career of the musical genius emerges.
The Life of Beethoven (Musical Lives)
The Life of Beethoven (Musical Lives),David Wyn Jones,Cambridge University Press,0521568781,1770-1827,Austria,Beethoven, Ludwig van,,Biography,Biography / Autobiography,Composers,Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers,General,Historical - General,Music,Musical Instruments - General,Beethoven, Ludwig van,--1770-1827,Composers & musicians,Music / General
The Life of Beethoven (Musical Lives)
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