false 126666 4 <p>Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston.</p> <p>Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.</p> <p>But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces, such as his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies. With sensitivity and insight, Edmund Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived "on the other side of silence."</p> 1417686 1 10 2005 Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) total:80|5:24|4:35|3:17|2:3|1:1| 80 318 143 17 126666 0060759747 9780060759742 78 17 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171920823m/126666.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126666.Beethoven_The_Universal_Composer 5 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 14 13:59:40 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 14:00:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 126666 0060759747 9780060759742 78 17 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171920823m/126666.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126666.Beethoven_The_Universal_Composer 4 0 false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:09:50 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 06:03:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 126666 0060759747 9780060759742 78 17 3.98 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171920823m/126666.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126666.Beethoven_The_Universal_Composer 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:38:54 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:38:54 -0800 2009 How does Pulitzer Prize_±winning biographer (Dutch; The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt; Theodore Rex) Edmund Morris take a break from his duties? Not by retreating to Fiji or visiting Mount Rushmore, but by delivering this installment to HarperCollins' Eminent Lives series of short biographies. Reviewer...

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