Beethoven: The Music and the Life
by Lewis Lockwood
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In this portrayal of the world's most famous composer, Lewis Lockwood interweaves his subject's musical and biographical dimensions and places them in their historical and artistic contexts. Written for the lay reader, the book describes the special problems Beethoven faced as a highly gifted artist who fulfilled his destiny as Mozart's main successor while remaining a true, rebellious original. It sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which show more Beethoven worked and demonstrates their effects on his music. Finally, it turns to the composer in his last years, with great achievements behind him, surmounting the crisis of finding still further artistic paths by which to continue. Also, by providing glimpses into the composer's sketchbooks and autograph manuscripts, Lockwood allows us to gain substantial insights into Beethoven's compositional methods. In this brilliant portrayal of the world's most famous composer, eminent Beethoven scholar Lockwood interweaves his subject's musical and biographical dimensions and places them in their historical and artistic contexts. show lessTags
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Well written and researched... got a little long in the last third, but fun read overall.
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Lewis Lockwood, one of the world's leading Beethoven scholars, is the Fanny Peabody Research Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University and the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Beethoven: The Music and the Life. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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- Original title
- Beethoven: the music and the life
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Dedication
- To Ava
- Blurbers
- Teachout, Terry; Ax, Emanuel; Keates, Jonathan; Solomon, Maynard; Sadie, Stanley
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