| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Eminent lives |
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Eminent lives.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed June 28, 2007). |
| Summary |
Beethoven was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. Biographer Morris brings the composer 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 powerful and privileged aristocrats, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces. 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."--Publisher description. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- 1. The spirit of Mozart -- 2. The hands of Haydn -- 3. The creature of Prometheus -- 4. The cold dungeon -- 5. The immortal beloved -- 6. The mountains of the mind -- 7. The raven mother -- 8. The other side of silence -- Valedictory -- Epilogue -- Glossary of musical terms. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9780061369322 ODE (electronic bk.) |
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0061369322 ODE (electronic bk.) |
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9780061369339 ODE (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader) |
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0061369330 ODE (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader) |
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