Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian,...
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Author: Jan Swafford
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Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Swafford, Jan

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

$101.93

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

$101.93
Author: Jan Swafford
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven 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.

More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.

Author: Jan Swafford
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 08/05/2014
Pages: 1104
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.15lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.29w x 1.86d
ISBN: 9780618054749


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2014 pg. 95
Library Journal 03/15/2014 pg. 95
Booklist 06/01/2014 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2014
Publishers Weekly 07/14/2014
Library Journal 08/01/2014 pg. 99
New York Times Book Review 08/03/2014 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 08/10/2014 pg. 26
New York Review of Books 10/23/2014 pg. 32
Choice 04/01/2015 pg. 1325

About the Author

JAN SWAFFORD is the author of Johannes Brahms: A Biography and Charles Ives: A Life with Music, as well as TheVintage Guide to Classical Music. He teaches music history, theory, and composition at the Boston Conservatory.


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