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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, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and 'fate's hammer', his ever-encroaching deafness. At the time of his death he was so widely celebrated that over ten thousand people attended his funeral.
This book is a biography of Beethoven the man and musician, not the myth, and throughout, Swafford - himself a composer - offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works. More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.
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An absorbing, uplifting read. (Hugh Canning Sunday Times, Classical Music Book of the Year)
'Jan Swafford's vast biography sketches in the social and political background but gives most space to the music ... vivid and readable.' (Richard Fairman Financial Times, Books of the Year)
Magisterial, warm, and engaging ... A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity... Jan Swafford is to be saluted. (Rebecca K Morrison Independent)
Genuinely fresh insight ... a book that sends you scurrying back to the music - and that must be the best accolade any composer biography can have. (Richard Morrison The Times)
A tremendous read ... this book is a must for all lovers of Beethoven's music. (Tim Blanning Literary Review)
'Compendious and richly detailed ... skilful and vivid relation of all the complex context and happenstance of Beethoven's life to what was essential in it: the music.' (Adam Lively Sunday Times)
[A] fascinating biography ... full of insight. (Peter Lewis Daily Mail)
A highly rewarding read, with a lightness of touch that makes history come to life ... having read this book, next time you listen to "Fidelio" or the Fifth Symphony or the "Pathétique", you may feel you understand them a little better. (Economist)
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A fascinating celebration of one of classical music's all-time great composers, and Sunday Times Classical Music Book of the 2014
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 057131256X
- ISBN 13 9780571312566
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1104
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