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Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Denis Matthews
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Description for Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Paperback. An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven's life, career, and milieu. "Magisterial" -New York Review of Books. Num Pages: 624 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 860.
This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will—or at least should—appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary). Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. "Lewis Lockwood has written a biography of Beethoven in which the hours that Beethoven spent writing music—that is, his methods of working, his interest in contemporary and past composers, the ... Read more
This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will—or at least should—appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary). Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. "Lewis Lockwood has written a biography of Beethoven in which the hours that Beethoven spent writing music—that is, his methods of working, his interest in contemporary and past composers, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393326383
SKU
V9780393326383
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About Denis Matthews
Lewis Lockwood taught at Princeton and Harvard universities, where he is Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus. His Beethoven: The Music and the Life was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Beethoven: The Music and the Life
"Why are not more musicians' biographies written like this?"Mitsuko Uchida, Books of the Year, The Guardian "If I were to keep only one book on Beethoven this would be a strong contender." Philip Borg-Wheeler, Classical Music "Lockwood writes like an angel, lucid, enthusiastic, stirring and enlightening. Beethoven has found his ablest interpreter." Jonathan Keates, The Spectator "Professor ... Read more