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Author: Edmund Morris
Publisher: HarperPress (2007)
Language: English
Pages: 256
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity, extraordinary even . His most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow and now encircles the globe. His most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. A lifelong devotee, Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence-a gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints
Beethoven: The Universal Composer. Beethoven is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins’ Eminent Lives series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.
Beethoven: The Universal Composer.
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. .Beethoven: The Universal Composer Atlas books Eminent lives.
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. Издание: иллюстрированное, перепечатанное.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity .
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a composer of universal genius whose popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow and now encircles the globe. A lifelong devotee, Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligenceâ?a gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music, whose grandeur.
Edmund Morris' biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, part of the "Eminent Lives" series, is delightful. Edmund Morris has written biographies of Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. He also plays piano, studies music, and has been examining Beethoven for decades and decades. The combination works very well here. Edmund Morris's highly readable brief biography, "Beethoven: The Universal Composer" tries, in a straighforward way, to explain the sources of the inspiration that listeners have found and continue to find in Beethoven's music. Morris's book is part of a series. This is the third biography of Beethoven I’ve read and each of the three books might as well have been about a completely different person. Harper Collins Publishers, New York. Perhaps the reason for this is that there is so much material that any biographer picks and chooses what he wants and can pretty well end up wherever he wants to go.
Title: Beethoven Author: Morris, Edmund Publisher: Harpercollins Publication Date: 2010/02/09 Number of Pages: 243 Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: oc2010045750 Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives). Get specific details about this product from customers who own it. Back.
Beethoven : The Universal Composer . Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Dutch) is one of America's most distinguished biographers, known for his rich, compulsively readable prose style. His biography of Beethoven, one of the most admired composers in the history of music, is above all a study of genius in action, of one of the few giants of Western culture. Beethoven is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins' "Eminent Lives" series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.