Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
(Book - Regular Print)

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Physical Desc
xxi, 1077 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Prescott Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
780.92 BEETHOVEN
1 available
Yavapai College Prescott - LIMBO - Items being donated to other libraries
ML410.B4S94 2014
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format
Book - Regular Print
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 946-955) and index.
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Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and fate's hammer," his ever-encroaching deafness. Throughout, Swafford offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works [Publisher description]

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Swafford, J. (2014). Beethoven: anguish and triumph : a biography . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Swafford, Jan. 2014. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph : A Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Swafford, Jan. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph : A Biography Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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Swafford, Jan. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph : A Biography Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

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