Beethoven's Ninth
Subtitle: A Political History
Contributors: Richard Miller (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780226078243
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.