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.
Beethoven - Anguish and Triumph
Jan Swafford
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2014
1104 páginas
1d 12h 48m
ISBN-10: 061805474X
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Jan Swafford
Jan Swafford é compositor, escritor e musicólogo. Nascido em 1946, formou-se em Harvard e na Escola de Música de Yale. Foi professor de composição no Conservatório de Boston e teve suas obras tocadas por importantes orquestras americanas. Autor de livros diversos, incluindo biografias de referência sobre Beethoven, Charles Ives e Brahms, é colaborador regular da Slate, do Guardian e do Boston Globe.
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