Beethoven   : anguish and triumph : a biography
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Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
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This biography peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and fate's hammer, his ever-encroaching deafness. Throughout, Swafford offers insightful readings of Beethoven's key works.--Publisher description.
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