Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper is professor of music at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Beethoven and the Creative Process (1990) and Beethoven (Master Musicians) (2008).
Barry Cooper is professor of music at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Beethoven and the Creative Process (1990) and Beethoven (Master Musicians) (2008). See less
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Barry Cooper book reviews
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Beethoven
Barry Cooper's Biography Of Beethoven
The work of great artists is inexhaustible. In Beethoven's case, his music remains a stunning achievement. His achievement as a composer, together with his character, his deafness, his thwarted love ... Read More
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Beethoven
Excellent biography of a life in music
by mattn, Dec 10, 2009
The great Beethoven biography is Thayer-Forbes (A.W. Thayer as annotated and expanded by Elliot Forbes), and it remains the standard. But Cooper's book acts as a gentle corrective to Thayer-Forbes, ... Read More