by Jan Swafford (Get the Book)Winner of the PEN/Winship Award and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Swafford's Ives is a wonder of music biography; the author, who teaches at Boston Conservatory, re-created the very sounds surrounding Ives in childhood to help us understand his daring musicianship. Here, Swafford offers a study of Beethoven, ten years in the making, that investigates the ideas tumbling through the air in Enlightenment-era Bonn so that we can see how Beethoven and his music were shaped. With a 25,000-copy first printing.
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