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German composer (–)

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Beethoven

‘Exquisitely produced &#; this short biography eschews meaningless psychobabble in favour of an excellent overview of the musician&#;s life and times interspersed with short but incisive discussions of some of the major works. Particularly interesting is Geck&#;s concentration on his subject as a working composer rather than a genius who floated entirely aloof from quotidian concerns.’
The Guardian

‘A little gem: a sure-footed, finely drawn portrait.’
Peter Gülk, Das Orchester

 

Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the legendary figures of world culture. But who is the man behind that legend? Martin Geck offers a vivid portrait of a difficult but fascinating man with a tangled and still controversial love life. This is an expert introduction to a self-styled cultural hero, presented warts, genius and all.

MARTIN GECK is the founding editor of the collected works of Richard Wagner and has written several books on the great composers, including the critically acclaimed Bach: A Life and Work. He is also the author of Bach in the Life&Times series.

PETER SHEPPARD SKÆRVED is the leader of the Kreutzer Quartert and Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, specialising in the study of Beethoven. He has recorded the complete Beethoven repertoire fo

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Beethoven: The First Biography,

Ludwig van Beethoven: Eine Biographie appeared in Prague a few months after the composer's death, thirteen years before the next biography of Beethoven would appear. Virtually nothing is known about the author, Johann Aloys Schlosser, except that he was born in the small town of Lann, in Bohemia, around and was a partner in a publishing firm in Prague from , at which time he published this first brief biography of Beethoven. Many writers have pointed out the flaws in Schlosser's "biography". The purpose of the present edition is not to provide a clear and vivid picture of Beethoven's life, but to enable English-speaking readers to judge Schlosser's book for themselves rather than relying on secondhand criticisms, and to illuminate what was known and believed in Vienna and Prague in - not only about Beethoven but about his relationship to Haydn and Mozart, and to the music of Bach and Handel. Copious annotations and an introductory essay by the eminent Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper put Schlosser's text into perspective and clarify inaccuracies in the original text. Available for the first time in English, Schlosser's first biography of Beethoven substantially enriches our understanding of the attitudes of Beethoven's contemporaries and fil