The Life of Beethoven

An account of Beethoven's life as a creative musician.

List of contents

1. The young courtier; 2. A new career in Vienna; 3. Cursing his creator and his existence; 4. Drama and symphony; 5. Patrons and patriotism; 6. Empires of the mind; 7. Towards a public comeback; 8. Facing death.

Summary

This account of Beethoven reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It describes his early years as a court musician, his public career as a pianist-composer and his difficult relationships with patrons and musical institutions of the day.

Product details

• Authors: David Wyn Jones, David Wyn Jones
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521560191
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56019-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 445 g
• Series: Musical Lives
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs