Beethoven: The Music and the Life

by Lewis Lockwood

Book Overview

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will--or at least should--appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393326381
• ISBN13: 9780393326383
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"