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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Swafford |
ISBN: | 9780571312566 057131256X |
OCLC Number: | 925432113 |
Notes: | Originally published: 2014 |
Description: | xxi, 1077, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Bonn, electorate of Cologne -- Father, mother, son -- Reason and revolution -- Loved in turn -- Golden age -- A journey and a death -- Bildung -- Stem and book -- Unreal city -- Chains of craftsmanship -- Generalissimo -- Virtuoso -- Fate's hammer -- The good, the beautiful, and the melancholy -- The new path -- Oh, fellow men -- Heaven and Earth will tremble -- Geschrieben auf Bonaparte -- Our hearts were stirred -- That haughty beauty -- Schemes -- Darkness to light -- Thus be enabled to create -- Myths and men -- My angel, my self -- We finite beings -- The queen of the night -- What is difficult -- The sky above, the law within -- Qui venit in nomine Domini -- You millions -- Ars longa, vita brevis -- Plaudite, amici -- Appendix |
Responsibility: | Jan Swafford |
Abstract:
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.
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