This period sees Beethoven reaching into his soul for stunning results. • Beethoven makes his last appearance as a pianist in an 1814 performance of the Archduke Trio; one observer notes "there was ...

The author lets the music do the talking in this pithy new biography, which uses the composer’s works to shed new light on his life A book about the most famous composer in the western canon, a “dead ...

As Beethoven's deafness grows his music undergoes a profound change. • Having faced the worst his demons can hurl at him, Beethoven resolves to go on as though nothing is wrong, and as an act of ...

Countless biographies of one of the world's most recognized classical music composers, Ludwig van Beethoven, already exist. Why British journalist, radio host and admitted Beethoven obsessive John ...

Music lovers who are familiar with Jan Swafford’s earlier biographies of Brahms and Charles Ives will need no further incitement to read this mammoth but compelling biography of a composer arguably ...