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Beethoven, anguish and triumph, Jan Swafford

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Beethoven, anguish and triumph, Jan Swafford

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eng

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biography

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Beethoven

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Jan Swafford

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anguish and triumph

Summary

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

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Beethoven, anguish and triumph

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