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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Ludwig van Beethoven steht in seiner Zeit und zugleich über ihr. Bedeutend sind die Anregungen, welche der schulisch kaum gebildete, seinem geistigen und politischen Lebensraum jedoch engagiert und skeptisch zugewandte Künstler durch Aufklärung, Französische Revolution, Napoleonkult, Weimarer Klassik und idealistische Philosophie erhalten hat. Nicht minder imponierend ist die ästhetische Summe, welche der sein Zeitalter überragende Komponist letztlich zieht: Sein Werk, ein Wunder an Prägnanz, Vielfalt und Differenziertheit, wird für Zeitgenossen und Nachfahren zum Inbegriff von Musik als kraftvoll zusammengefasster Individualität.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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April 21, 2024
Der taube Komponist der uns einige der Schönsten Werke hinterlassen hat. Mein selbes Problem wie mit allen Monografien von Komponisten: ich kann keine Noten lesen und verstehe nichts von Musiktheorie. Somit war das Buch für mich ein gutes Drittel zu lang.
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November 24, 2024
I admire Beethoven and I couldn't help but love the book cause its all about him
Profile Image for Dolly Lwin.
13 reviews
June 5, 2015
This book explains how he became deaf and how he made music. It is incredible how a deaf person became famous.
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August 19, 2022
concise yet provocative, witty in narrative choice. This biography paints an almost fictional account of L.W van Beethoven.
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May 27, 2016
Never getting bogged down in speculation about what it all means, Martin Geck delivers biography with some notes about the music. Fun side-bars offer quotes from contemporaries. Three things I hadn't known about Beethoven before I read this: 1) He was all busted up about a woman he called "Immortal Beloved" and no one knows who he means. 2) Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von was right about him, Beethoven was a jerk who did shit like throw plates of food at the waiters... but I gather deaf people are often extra cranky. 3) He went all psycho, stole his nephew from the kid's mother (B's sister-in-law) and then pretty much ruined the kid's life until finally he was old enough to get out from under Beethoven. Yeah. But the music is great...

Jeez... "I gather" ... is there some way to say that that isn't so poncey?
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