Lives & Memoirs
Beethoven, A Character Study
George Alexander Fischer
1905
7h 14m
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By thirty he knew he was going deaf, and wrote his brothers a letter explaining why he had not killed himself. Fischer takes the Heiligenstadt crisis as the hinge of the entire life, and follows a man whose manners were appalling, whose household was chaos, and who went on composing long after the sound had gone completely.
Inside this audiobook
23 chapters
- 1Early Promise - Part 112m
- 2Early Promise - Part 217m
- 3The Morning of Life17m
- 4The New Path16m
- 5Heroic Symphony20m
- 6Fidelio24m
- 7The Eternal Feminine22m
- 8Victory from Defeat13m
- 9Meeting with Goethe26m
- 10Optimistic Trend17m
- 11At the Zenith of His Fame18m
- 12At the Zenith of His Fame12m
- 13Methods of Composition23m
- 14Sense of Humor20m
- 15Missa Solemnis - Part 120m
- 16Missa Solemnis - Part 219m
- 17Ninth Symphony25m
- 18Capacity for Friendship20m
- 19The Day's Trials12m
- 20Last Quartets19m
- 21In the Shadows27m
- 22Life's Purport9m
- 23Wagner's Indebtedness To26m
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