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Beethoven: The Universal Composer

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From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author, “an ideal starting point toward ultimate Beethoven appreciation” (Entertainment Weekly).

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) 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.

Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great 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 as an astute manipulator of the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.

But Beethoven’s achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces, such as his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies. With sensitivity and insight, Edmund Morris illuminates Beethoven’s life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived “on the other side of silence.”

“Vivid . . . Morris deftly sorts his way through Beethoven’s biography.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Brilliant . . . superb, elegant writing . . . every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates.” —Christopher Buckley, Forbes

© 2024 HarperCollins e-books (E-bog): 9780061738876

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E-bog: 17. januar 2024

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