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Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Vienna, 1800. Countess Julie Guicciardi's life is about to change forever. The spirited eighteen-year-old is taking piano lessons with Ludwig van Beethoven, the most talented piano virtuoso in the musical capital of Europe. She is captivated by his volatile genius, while he is drawn to her curiosity and disarming candor. Between them, a unique romance. But Beethoven has a secret he's yet to share, and Julie is harboring a secret of her own, one so...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Master cartoonist Mikael Ross (The Thud) tells the story of Beethoven from 1778 to his first major public appearance in Vienna in 1795. It begins when the family is living a difficult life in Bonn. Father Johann battles with alcoholism and is deep in debt. Only young Ludwig and his talent at the piano offer any hope for the future--if only he would stop composing his own pieces and just play what's expected of him."--
Author
Series
California studies in 19th century music volume 14
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
71) Mr. Beethoven
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffith's ingenious and delightful novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee the first performance of the work. Griffiths grants the composer an additional lease on life of several years, and starting with his voyage...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
74) Baby Beethoven
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Children will be delighted with baby friendly images of toys, puppets, and art all set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven.
75) Said on opera
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In May of 1997 Edward W. Said delivered the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University under the title "Authority and Transgression in Opera." He planned to publish the lectures with Cambridge but never finished the manuscript. Some portions of the lectures were published in journals, about 20 years ago.The lecture typescripts are preserved in the Edward W. Said Papers at Columbia. The Edward W. Said Estate and Wouter Capitain have collaborated on the...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An analysis of Beethoven's seminal Ninth Symphony identifies it as a key cultural event that reflected major social upheavals, including the emergence of a dynamic Western world and changes in philosophical perspectives on individuality.
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this vividly imagined historical novel, acclaimed Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala has focused his laser-sharp wit on the life and times of George Bridgetower, a young violin prodigy, who, at the age of nine, took the courtly world of 18th century Europe by storm--and surprise, given the youth's unusual origins: for young George was of mixed- race parentage, known in the parlance of the day as a mulatto. Though his father Augustus was from Barbados...