Biographies, Classical Composers, Ludwig van Beethoven

Drawing on his recent landmark translations of Beethoven's conversation books, Albrecht peppers his day-by-day breakdown with everyday observations that bring the story to life. We learn of... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Moonlighting is a revealing lesson in understanding how and why modernist authors engaged with these Beethovenian tropes...Novels, [Waddell] points out, are not just stories or representations... — Eighteenth-Century Music More…

Extremely readable and thought-provoking — Neue Musikzeitung More…

For their doughty efforts, Tom Beghin and his team of researchers and instrument builders deserve every piano lover's thanks — International Piano More…

Winner of the 1996 Wallace Berry Distinguished Book Award, Society for Music Theory "Strategic economy is a very striking feature of this book, as striking as its breathtaking ambition... Those... — New York Review of Books More…