Lives & Memoirs
Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words
Ludwig van Beethoven
2026
2h 51m$1.99
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He kept talking long after he could no longer hear the replies. Gathered from his letters, his conversation notebooks and the notes he scrawled to himself, Beethoven's own words run across the deafness, the nephew he fought the courts to keep, his contempt for the patrons who paid him, and a working method that rewrote a phrase forty times before it would do.
Inside this audiobook
7 chapters
- 1Brief Biographical Sketch; Preface11m
- 2Concerning Art; Love of Nature13m
- 3Concerning Texts; On Composing21m
- 4On Performing Music; On His Own Works26m
- 5On Art and Artists; Beethoven as Critic; On Education28m
- 6On His Own Disposition and Character; The Sufferer37m
- 7Worldly Wisdom; God; Appendix35m
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