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Summary
An esteemed music historian provides a rich, detailed overview of the life of Ludwig van Beethoven, traveling from Enlightenment-era Bonn to the musical capital of Europe, Vienna, to vividly describe the composer's career, ill health and romantic rejections. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Bonn, electorate of Cologne
- Father, mother, son
- Reason and revolution
- Loved in turn
- Golden age
- A journey and a death
- Bildung
- Stem and book
- Unreal city
- Chains of craftsmanship
- Generalissimo
- Virtuoso
- Fate's hammer
- The good, the beautiful, and the melancholy
- The new path
- Oh, fellow men
- Heaven and Earth will tremble
- Geschrieben auf Bonaparte
- Our hearts were stirred
- That haughty beauty
- Schemes
- Darkness to light
- Thus be enabled to create
- Myths and men
- My angel, my self
- We finite beings
- The queen of the night
- What is difficult
- The sky above, the law within
- Qui venit in nomine Domini
- You millions
- Ars longa, vita brevis
- Plaudite, amici
- Appendix.