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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + foldout booklet ([6] pages).
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English
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Great pianists of the 20th century volume 54
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2 audio discs (157 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Great pianists of the 20th century volume 37
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2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Deutsch
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Ludwig van Beethoven's transformative Symphony no. 9 has been described as "the world's greatest symphony," recognizable even to the most casual classical music listener. The concert was filmed during the 100th birthday celebration for scholar and philanthropist William H. Scheide.
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1 videodisc (approximately 66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"When taunting saboteurs warn of a Nazi invasion of the British Isles through their horrific radio menace the Voice of Terror, the British intelligence's Inner Council calls in Sherlock Holmes to help in the crisis"--Container.
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xviii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Beethoven's extraordinary ability to compose great music despite severe health problems, including deafness and depression, has puzzled and inspired. The author looks at the relationship between Beethoven's health and creativity to show how the composer was able to transcend physical and emotional torment to produce some of the most powerful and beautiful music in Western culture.
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English
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Examines the life of eighteenth-century composer Ludwig van Beethoven, discussing his difficult childhood, early gift for music, volatile personality, hearing loss, and the influence of other composers on his work. Includes twenty-one related activities.
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x, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Just before his death, Sanford Friedman completed this, his final novel, something entirely different from anything he, or for that matter anyone, had written before - Conversations with Beethoven, a moving meditation on greatness and pettiness, vulnerability and genius, that is as elegiac as it is witty and engaging.
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English
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Beethoven was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. 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...
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xv, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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lluminates Beethoven's difficult childhood, his struggle to find a wife, his ungovernable temper, his emotional volatility, his tendency to push away those trying to help him, and in middle age his obsessive compulsion to control his nephew's life.
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xix, 505 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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A fascinating and in-depth exploration of how the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon shaped Beethoven's political ideals and inspired his groundbreaking compositions. Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the university. Moving to Vienna at the age of 21 to study with Haydn, he gained renown as a brilliant pianist and innovative composer....
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