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"A major new biography published for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, offering a fresh, human portrayal. The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him. Oxford scholar Laura Tunbridge offers an alternative history of Beethoven's...
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This work is a definitive critical exploration of the world of Beethoven's piano music. It presents detailed analyses of the technique and form of each of Beethoven's thirty-two published pianoforte sonatas, and discusses the composer's evolution from the Mozartian clarity of Op. 2, No. 2, to the final intricacies of the Hammerklavier. In addition, twelve essays deal with those all-important artistic considerations which, though impossible to analyze...
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Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven. has long been recognized as the classic biography of Beethoven. So Van Wyck Brooks described this monumental work of the 1880's. Thayer talked with Beethoven's surviving friends, gathered anecdotes, and sifted hundreds of documents. The resulting wealth of detail stimulated other students, and a mass of Beethoven scholarship appeared.
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A companion volume to the reprint of The Nine Symphonies of Beethoven, this book is a lucid but non-technical analysis written in the author's characteristically accessible style. Composer, conductor and pianist himself, Antony Hopkins is uniquely placed to share with the reader his view of these works. A general introduction precedes this detailed study which, with its many musical examples, provides a welcome and refreshing exploration of seven...
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"Beethoven's Hair traces the unlikely journey of a lock of hair cut from Beethoven's corpse and unravels the mystery of his tortured life and death. The film begins in modern times when a pair of Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchase the hair at a Sotheby's auction. As the story unfolds, it follows the past generations of owners, culminating in the futuristic science that reveals Beethoven's 'medical secret'. Set to a lush...
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