02119cam a2200337 a 4500 14370501 OSt 20141014104227.0 060509s2005 nyuc b 000 0beng d 2006274925 0060759747 9780060759742 (OCoLC)ocm61770492 TEF PUL lccopycat ML410.B4 M696 2005 Morris, Edmund. Beethoven : the universal composer / Edmund Morris. 1st ed. New York : Atlas Books/HarperCollins, c2005. 243 p. : port. ; 19 cm. Eminent lives Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-243). Beethoven was a genius so universal that his popularity, extraordinary even during his lifetime, has never ceased to grow. It now encircles the globe: Beethoven's most famous works are as beloved in Beijing as they are in Boston. Biographer Morris brings the composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of powerful and privileged aristocrats, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces. Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived "on the other side of silence."--From publisher description. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Composers Austria Biography. Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2006274925-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0910/2006274925-d.html lcc BK 25320 25320 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-14 Books For Africa 2500.00 0 ML410.B4 M696 2005 2014-4031 2015-07-01 00:00:00 1 2014-10-14 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-14 Books For Africa 2500.00 0 ML410.B4 M696 2005 2014-4032 2015-07-01 00:00:00 2 2014-10-14 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-14 Books For Africa 2500.00 0 ML410.B4 M696 2005 2014-4033 2015-07-01 00:00:00 3 2014-10-14 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC PUEA PUEA GEN 2014-10-14 Books For Africa 2500.00 0 ML410.B4 M696 2005 2014-4035 2015-07-01 00:00:00 4 2014-10-14 BK