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Title:

THE LIFE OF BEETHOVEN

By:

David Wyn Jones

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521568781

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9780521568784

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 November, 1998

Series:

Musical Lives

Pages:

220

Description:

An account of Beethoven's life as a creative musician.

Synopsis:

'My compositions bring me in a good deal ...I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history of music, this biography places his work in the context of the musical life of the period. Through an understanding of the changing nature of musical patronage, the private and public concert, the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on culture and society, and the increasing ambition of musical life in the period after the end of the wars, a varied and dynamic picture of Beethoven's musical career emerges.

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15 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

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