num_pages: 200
description: Available for the first time in English, this biography, published in Prague only a few months after the composer's death, provides a contemporary view of the man and musician. Eminent Beethoven scholar Barry Cooper puts this curious work into perspective, clarifying inaccuracies in the original 19th-century text.
language: English
title: Beethoven - The First Biography
titlecomplete: Beethoven - The First Biography (Amadeus)
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Amadeus