Beethoven: The Music and the Life
by Lewis Lockwood
Category: Biography & Autobiography

A portrait of the life, career, and milieu of the master composer describes the special challenges he faced as a gifted artist in the face of personal, historical, political, and cultural factors, in a volume that shares insight into his compositional methods through recreations of his sketchbooks and autograph manuscripts. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.