| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
243 pages : portrait ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Eminent lives |
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Eminent lives.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243). |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0060759747 |
| Standard No. |
9780060759742 |
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