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Anguish and Triumph
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
1100 pages
ISBN: 061805474X
EAN: 9780618054749
Kindle: B00E78IB3E
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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