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Suchet, John, 1944-
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Suchet, John, 1944-
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Beethoven : the man revealed / John Suchet.
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Suchet, John, 1944-
Grove Press, 2013.
Call #:
780
.92
B415s
Subjects
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780802122063 (hc.)
080212206X (hc.)
Description:
xv, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-378) and index.
Contents:
The Spaniard : in which a momentous life begins -- The right teacher : this boy could become 'a second Mozart' -- Meeting Mozart : watch out for that boy -- Word spreads : young Beethoven as kitchen scullion -- Impressing the Viennese : but Haydn feels the wrath of an angry young man -- My poor hearing haunts me : but there is 'a dear charming girl who loves me' -- Only my art held me back : in which Beethoven considers suicide -- Egyptian hieroglyphics : Napoleon is no more than 'a common tyrant' -- O, beloved J! : musical failure, but will Beethoven succeed in love? -- A deeply immoral woman : Beethoven holds the most important concert of his life, and is offered a job -- Under cannon fire : in which Beethoven once again tries his luck at love -- Immortal beloved : 'my angel, my all, my very self' -- An utterly untamed personality : Beethoven turns again to his 'poor shipwrecked opera' -- Into the witness box : how the single letter 'o' ruined Beethoven's life -- A musical gift from London : how Rossini found Beethoven 'disorderly and dirty' -- 'I want to be a soldier' : in which Beethoven gets drunk with friends -- Two pistols and gunpowder : an invitation to get away from it all -- Frightening the oxen : 'The greatest composer of the century, and you treated him like a servant!' -- Terminally ill : 'His face was damp, he spat blood' -- The last master : 'He was an artist, but a man as well.'
Summary:
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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