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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Jan Swafford
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Description for Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Paperback. Presenting a biography of Beethoven, this book offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works. Num Pages: 1104 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 236 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1116.
Jan Swafford's biographies of composers 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, ... Read more
Jan Swafford's biographies of composers 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1104
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571312566
SKU
V9780571312566
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About Jan Swafford
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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