Beethoven (Life & Times) (Life & Times S.)

Martin Geck

ISBN 10: 1904341004 / ISBN 13: 9781904341000

Verlag: Haus Publishing Limited, 2003

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Inhaltsangabe:

<div>Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the legendary figures of world culture. But who is the man behind the legend? Martin Geck offers a vivid portrait of a difficult but fascinating man with a tangled and still controversial love life. This is an expert introduction to a self-styled cultural hero, presented warts, genius and all.</div>

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: <div>Martin Geck studied musicology, theology and philosophy at Münster, Berlin and Kiel. He took his doctorate in 1962 and in 1966 became the founding editor of the Gesamtausgabe of the works of Richard Wagner. He wrote a number of musicological textbooks and was appointed full professor of musicology at Dortmund University in 1976. He has edited and written many books, articles and entries into encyclopaedic works on the history of German music in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, concentrating on the work of Buxtehude, Brahms, Bach, Beethoven, E T A Hoffmann, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Wagner. He is also the author of Bach (Haus Publishing). </div>

Martin Geck is the founding editor of the collected works of Richard Wagner and has written several books on the great composers, including the critically acclaimed Bach: Life and Work (FSG). His biography of Ludwig van Beethoven was published in the Life&Times series in May 2003. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, leader of the Kreutzer Quartet and Research Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, specializing in the study of Beethoven. He has recorded the complete Beethoven repertoire for piano and violin.

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Titel: Beethoven (Life & Times) (Life & Times S.)
Verlag: Haus Publishing Limited
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good