| Description |
xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. + 2 audio discs (4 3/4 in.) |
| Note |
Originally published: UK : Naxos Books, c2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [187]) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : Beethoven in his time -- The ascendancy -- Beethoven and the piano -- Crisis -- Chamber music (1) : mixed families -- The hero -- Beethoven and the human voice -- The immortal beloved -- Beethoven and the orchestra -- Kidnapped -- Beethoven in the theatre -- The master -- Chamber music (2) : strings alone -- Finale -- Epilogue : The truly immortal beloved -- The eighteenth-century background -- The nineteenth-century foreground -- Personalities. |
| Subject |
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
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Composers -- Austria -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
1402207514 |
| Standard No. |
9781402207518 |
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