Beethoven
By: Barry Cooper.
Series: The master musicians; Master musicians series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780195313314
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827; Composers -- Germany -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000. (Master musicians series).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-424) and index.
Table of contents: title: Young genius (1770-83); title: Adolescence (1784-9); title: Farewell to Bonn (1790-2); title: The conquest of Vienna (1792-5); title: Wider horizons (1796-8); title: First quartets and First Symphony (1799-1800); title: Hope and despair (1801-2); title: After Heiligenstadt (1802-3); title: L'amour conjugal (1804-6); title: A cluster of masterpieces (1806-8); title: Financial security? (1809-10); title: Immortal Beloved (1811-12); title: The political phase (1813-15); title: Declining productivity (1815-17); title: Gigantism (1818-20); title: Completion of the Mass (1820-2); title: Completion of the Ninth (1822-4); title: End of an Era (1824-7).