A Great Deaf Bear
James Wood: Beethoven gets going, 7 January 2021
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
by Laura Tunbridge.
Penguin, 276 pp., £16.99, June 2020,978 0 241 41427 9 Show More
by Laura Tunbridge.
Penguin, 276 pp., £16.99, June 2020,
The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography
by Mark Evan Bonds.
Oxford, 325 pp., £22.99, January 2020,978 0 19 006847 9 Show More
by Mark Evan Bonds.
Oxford, 325 pp., £22.99, January 2020,
Beethoven: Variations on a Life
by Mark Evan Bonds.
Oxford, 147 pp., £14.99, September 2020,978 0 19 005408 3 Show More
by Mark Evan Bonds.
Oxford, 147 pp., £14.99, September 2020,
“... history, there is an origin story that is for once not mythical. It began in 1810, when E.T.A. Hoffmann wrote a review of the Fifth Symphony that is considered one of the most influential essays in the history of music criticism. In it, he claimed Beethoven for Romanticism, and music as the highest form of Romanticism. According to ... ”
