Lewis Lockwood
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Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Lewis Lockwood
A fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu highlighting his development as a composer.
In this brilliant portrayal of the world’s most famous composer, eminent Beethoven scholar Lewis Lockwood interweaves his subject’s musical and biographical dimensions and places them in their historical and artistic contexts. Written for the lay reader, the book describes the special problems Beethoven faced as a highly gifted artist who fulfilled his destiny as Mozart’s main successor while remaining a true, rebellious original. It sketches the turbulent…
