Beethoven: Variations on a Life

by Mark Evan Bonds

Book Overview

Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career-even in the face of deafness-Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency, the music historian Mark Evan Bonds argues, provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing whatever occupied him from a variety of perspectives: a melodic idea, a musical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190054085
• ISBN13: 9780190054083
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"