Biographies, Classical Composers, Ludwig van Beethoven

Drawing on his recent landmark translations of Beethoven's conversation books, Albrecht peppers his day-by-day breakdown with everyday observations that bring the story to life. We learn of... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Moonlighting is a revealing lesson in understanding how and why modernist authors engaged with these Beethovenian tropes...Novels, [Waddell] points out, are not just stories or representations... — Eighteenth-Century Music More…

A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written... Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography — The New York Times More…

This finely researched book is indeed essential reading for Beethoven scholars and amateurs aficionados alike. For readers more inclined to curl up with a good mystery, Walden's book provides... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

Lockwood has given music lovers a great gift. By looking at historical context-who listened to Beethoven, what he read-and how the symphonies were planned, the reader gets a unique view of the... — Yo-Yo Ma More…

Extremely readable and thought-provoking — Neue Musikzeitung More…