Beethoven Variations : Poems on a Life
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ISBN-10
0593317726
ISBN-13
9780593317723
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Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 1st, 1900
Weight
282 grams
Dimensions
14.70 x 21.70 x 2.00 cms
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“Padel’s imagery and imagination took me deeper into Beethoven than many biographies I’ve read.” —Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times
A fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius, from the author of the celebrated Darwin: A Life in Poems
Ruth Padel''s new sequence of poems, in four movements, is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world''s greatest composers. She uncovers the man behind the music, charting his private thoughts and feelings through letters, diaries, sketchbooks, and the conversation books he used as his hearing declined. She gives us Beethoven as a battered four-year-old, weeping at the clavier; the young virtuoso pianist agonized by his encroaching deafness; the passionate, heartbroken lover; the clumsy eccentric making coffee with exactly sixty beans. Padel''s quest takes her into the heart of Europe and back to her own musical childhood: Her great-grandfather, who studied in Leipzig with a pupil of Beethoven''s, became a concert pianist before migrating to Britain; her parents met making music; and Padel grew up playing the viola, Beethoven''s instrument as a child. Her book is a poet and string player''s intimate connection across the centuries with an artist who, though increasingly isolated, ended even his most harrowing works on a note of hope.
A fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius, from the author of the celebrated Darwin: A Life in Poems
Ruth Padel''s new sequence of poems, in four movements, is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world''s greatest composers. She uncovers the man behind the music, charting his private thoughts and feelings through letters, diaries, sketchbooks, and the conversation books he used as his hearing declined. She gives us Beethoven as a battered four-year-old, weeping at the clavier; the young virtuoso pianist agonized by his encroaching deafness; the passionate, heartbroken lover; the clumsy eccentric making coffee with exactly sixty beans. Padel''s quest takes her into the heart of Europe and back to her own musical childhood: Her great-grandfather, who studied in Leipzig with a pupil of Beethoven''s, became a concert pianist before migrating to Britain; her parents met making music; and Padel grew up playing the viola, Beethoven''s instrument as a child. Her book is a poet and string player''s intimate connection across the centuries with an artist who, though increasingly isolated, ended even his most harrowing works on a note of hope.
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