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It is perhaps more true of Beethoven than any other composer that if you know what is going on in his life, you listen to his music through different ears. Ludwig van Beethoven's life - its dramas, conflicts, loves and losses, his deafness coupled with continuous health problems, his epic struggle with his sister-in-law for sole custody of her son, his nephew - is played out in his music.; Now John Suchet has portrayed the real man behind the music in this compelling biography of a musical genius. He reveals a difficult and complex character, struggling to continue his profession as musician despite increasing deafness, alienating friends with unprovoked outbursts of anger one moment, overwhelming them with excessive kindness and generosity the next, living in a city in almost constant disarray because of war with France.; This is not the god-like immortal portrayed in statues and paintings in heroic pose garlanded with laurel leaves. Beethoven may have been one of the greatest artists who ever lived, but he was still a man who had to live among fellow mortals, eat and drink, fall in love, pay his rent. This is the real Beethoven, and Suchet brings him effortlessly to life.

Table of Contents:
Preface... vi i i; Prologue... x i; Chapter One; The Spaniard; In which a momentous life begins 1; Chapter Two; The Right Teacher; This boy could become 'a second Mozart' 17;Chapter Three; Meeting Mozart; Watch out for that boy 31;Chapter Four; Word Spreads; Young Beethoven as kitchen scullion 45;Chapter Five; Impressing The Viennese; But Haydn feels the wrath of an angry young man 65;Chapter Six; My Poor Hearing Haunts Me; But there is 'a dear charming girl who loves me' 79;Chapter Seven; Only My Art Held Me Back; In which Beethoven considers suicide 91;Chapter Eight; Egyptian Hieroglyphics; Napoleon is no more than 'a common tyrant' 101;Chapter Nine; O, Beloved J!; Musical failure, but will Beethoven succeed in love? 115; Chapter Ten; A Deeply Immoral Woman; Beethoven holds the most important concert of his life, and is offered a job 127; Chapter Eleven; Under Cannon Fire; In which Beethoven once again tries his luck at love 141; Chapter Twelve; Immortal Beloved; 'My angel, my all, my very self' 151; Chapter Thirteen; An Utterly Untamed Personality; Beethoven turns again to his 'poor shipwrecked opera' 161; Chapter Fourteen; Into The Witness Box; How the single letter 'o' ruined Beethoven's life 175; Chapter Fifteen; A Musical Gift From London; How Rossini found Beethoven 'disorderly and dirty' 187; Chapter Sixteen; 'I Want To Be A Soldier'; In which Beethoven gets drunk with friends 203; Chapter Seventeen; Two Pistols And Gunpowder; An invitation to get away from it all 217; Chapter Eighteen; Frightening The Oxen; 'The greatest composer of the century,and you treated him like a servant!' 229; Chapter Nineteen; Terminally Ill; 'His face was damp, he spat blood' 241Chapter Twenty; The Last Master; 'He was an artist, but a man as well' 253; Postscript ... 262; Index... 266


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781908739889
  • Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
  • Publisher Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1908739886
  • Publisher Date: 04 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: The Man Revealed


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