Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage or should one say, duet of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates. Christopher Buckley, Forbes This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional and inestimable merit of being true. Washington Post Book World 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 ...
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Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage or should one say, duet of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates. Christopher Buckley, Forbes This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional and inestimable merit of being true. Washington Post Book World 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. "
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I loved Morris's biography of President Reagan ("Dutch") almost as much as his first volume on Theodore Roosevelt, so I thought he mainly did politicians. I was pleasantly surprised. For its length and scope, this is an excellent biography, especially for non-musicians. (Professional musicians of course already have a vast library of Beethoven studies and would not be interested in this.) The writing is crisp, the necessary historical context is interesting in its own right.
Sunlily
Apr 20, 2007
this book is very short, about 200 pages, and it is pocket size. you do get enough info. about Beethoven, but this book is not for general readers. I love classic music, I listen to it all the time, but I have no basic training. this book spent a third going into details about the music Beethoven wrote, using a lot of music language which i find very boring. if you know music theory you may not find so. i really liked 'Dutch', also written by Edmund Morris. that was the reason i chose this book when i decided to read about Beethoven. i have watched movies 'Immortal love' and 'copying Beethoven' recently. after reading this book, i guess these movies dramatized and stretched truth a bit. overall it is a nice break from huge books like 'Dutch'.
