Beethoven's Ninth
Subtitle: A Political History
Contributors: Richard Miller (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226078120
First sentence: One of the early critics of the Ode to Joy, perhaps made uncomfortable by its rugged grandeur, remarked that for Beethoven, deaf and nearing the end of his life, the act of composition had become very like dreaming.