Jan Swafford is an award-winning composer whose music has been played around the US and abroad by ensembles including the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Vermont, and Harrisburg, and by the Dutch Radio Orchestra. He is the author of Johannes Brahms: A Biography, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Charles Ives: A Life with Music, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the PEN/Winship Award. He is also the author of The Vintage Guide to Classical Music. His writing and commentary on music has been featured on NPR and in Slate, the Guardian, Gramophone, and elsewhere. Swafford teaches music history, theory, and composition at the Boston Conservatory.
Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world’s most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and “fate’s hammer,” his ever-encroaching deafness. Throughout, Swafford offers insightful readings of Beethoven’s key works.
More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.
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Why yet another biography of Beethoven is worth adding to your shelves “WHO can do anything after Beethoven?” asked Schubert. Composers who came after him struggled. For writers, on the other hand, the great man left behind a feast. The first biography...
評分Why yet another biography of Beethoven is worth adding to your shelves “WHO can do anything after Beethoven?” asked Schubert. Composers who came after him struggled. For writers, on the other hand, the great man left behind a feast. The first biography...
評分Why yet another biography of Beethoven is worth adding to your shelves “WHO can do anything after Beethoven?” asked Schubert. Composers who came after him struggled. For writers, on the other hand, the great man left behind a feast. The first biography...
評分揚·斯瓦福德(Jan Swafford),美國作麯傢、作傢。斯瓦福德以優異成績畢業於哈佛大學,後於耶魯大學音樂學院取得碩士以及博士學位,著有一係列音樂傢傳記,包括《查爾斯·埃夫斯傳》《勃拉姆斯傳》等,並著有《古典音樂經典指南》等。 這部《貝多芬傳:磨難與輝煌》是揚·斯瓦...
評分Why yet another biography of Beethoven is worth adding to your shelves “WHO can do anything after Beethoven?” asked Schubert. Composers who came after him struggled. For writers, on the other hand, the great man left behind a feast. The first biography...
圖書標籤: 傳記 Beethoven 音樂 貝多芬 音樂傢 music biography musicology
Beethoven 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載