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Beethoven: The Universal Composer
Paperback
Series: Eminent Lives
MusiciansClassical MusicGeneral Music
ISBN13: 9780060759759
Publisher: Perennial
Published: Feb 9 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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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