Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, Suchet illuminates the composer's difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances (he was constantly in love, to little avail), his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew's life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer's birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. --
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ISBN:9780802122063 (hc.)
Physical Description:print xv, 389 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Publisher:New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012.
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