The Life of Beethoven

by David Wyn Jones

Book Overview

'My compositions bring me in a good deal ... I state my price and they pay.' Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to the image of Beethoven as one of the most single-minded composers in the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521568781
• ISBN13: 9780521568784
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"