Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriageor should one say, duetof subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates. Christopher Buckley, Forbes This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additionaland inestimablemerit of being true. Washington Post Book World Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Dutch) is one of Americas most distinguished biographers, known for his rich, compulsively readable prose style. His biography of Beethoven, one of the most admired composers in the history of music, is above all a study of genius in action, of one of the few giants of Western culture. Beethoven is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins Eminent Lives series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriageor should one say, duetof subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates. Christopher Buckley, Forbes This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additionaland inestimablemerit of being true. Washington Post Book World Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Dutch) is one of Americas most distinguished biographers, known for his rich, compulsively readable prose style. His biography of Beethoven, one of the most admired composers in the history of music, is above all a study of genius in action, of one of the few giants of Western culture. Beethoven is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins Eminent Lives series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures.
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