An absorbing, uplifting read. (Hugh Canning Sunday Times, Classical Music Book of the Year)
'Jan Swafford's vast biography sketches in the social and political background but gives most space to the music ... vivid and readable.' (Richard Fairman Financial Times, Books of the Year)
Magisterial, warm, and engaging ... A triumph of scholarship and musical affinity... Jan Swafford is to be saluted. (Rebecca K Morrison Independent)
Genuinely fresh insight ... a book that sends you scurrying back to the music - and that must be the best accolade any composer biography can have. (Richard Morrison The Times)
A tremendous read ... this book is a must for all lovers of Beethoven's music. (Tim Blanning Literary Review)
'Compendious and richly detailed ... skilful and vivid relation of all the complex context and happenstance of Beethoven's life to what was essential in it: the music.' (Adam Lively Sunday Times)
[A] fascinating biography ... full of insight. (Peter Lewis Daily Mail)
A highly rewarding read, with a lightness of touch that makes history come to life ... having read this book, next time you listen to "Fidelio" or the Fifth Symphony or the "Pathétique", you may feel you understand them a little better. (Economist)
Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life.
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