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1) Beethoven
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xxii, 554 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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xxii, 699 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 21 cm
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English
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A biography of the nineteenth-century German composer looks at his daily life, his associates -- including his relationships with Robert Schumann, Clara Shumann, Richard Wagner, and Eduard Hanslick -- and his achievements as a composer.
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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...
7) Beethoven
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xvi, 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music, portraits ; 24 cm.
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English
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xxi, 1077 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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An esteemed music historian provides a rich, detailed overview of the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, traveling from Enlightenment-era Bonn to the musical capital of Europe, Vienna, to vividly describe the composer's career, ill health and romantic rejections.
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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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xxxiv, 628 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, music ; 25 cm
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"An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque--and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach...
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xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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Traces the life and music of the major composer and key figure of Romanticism, who has been the subject of major controversy since his early death in a mental asylum.
"Drawing on hitherto unpublished archive material, as well more established sources of journals, letters, and publications, Judith Chernaik provides enthralling new insight into Schumann's life and his music: his sexual escapades, his fathering of an illegitimate child, the facts behind...
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