

Beethoven
Anguish and Triumph
Author: Jan Swafford
Narrator: Michael Prichard
Unabridged: 39 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 01/05/2015
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Music, Composers, Musicians
Synopsis
Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and "fate's hammer," his ever-encroaching deafness.