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No Beethoven

Author : Weather Report
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989253017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book No Beethoven written by Weather Report and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Beethoven chronicles the life and times of drummer Peter Erskine, with the legendary band Weather Report being the nexus to this first-hand account. Erskine was in the midst of the modern American jazz music scene as it underwent its most dynamic change. Peter Erskine is a musician of his times with incredibly rich stories to tell in this autobiography. Including never-before published photographs. No Beethoven includes chapters dedicated to Weather Report and the musicians Joe Zawinul, Jaco Pastorius, and Wayne Shorter, plus the bands Steps Ahead, Steely Dan, and artists such as Elvin Jones, Joni Mitchell, Freddie Hubbard, Diana Krall, Steve Gadd, producer Manfred Eicher, composers John Williams, and Mark-Anthony Turnage, et al. The book provides a revealing look at the creative process involved in performing music on-stage and in the recording studio, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at how the musical instrument industry operates. This is a book for all musicians and fans of music. As famed drummer and Rush founder Neil Peart writes: No Beethoven is among the best musical autobiographies I have read. Peter's story is absorbing and compelling, full of well-drawn characters and incidents both humorous and serious. It flows with the same ease and naturalness as his drumming, and under that good-humored gloss, it conveys the same profundity of experience and ideas. This book should be read not only by every drummer, but by every musician. Even amateurs of music performance will find it entertaining and worthwhile.

Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.)

Author : Elliott Graeme
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) written by Elliott Graeme and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.)" by Elliott Graeme. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Beethoven

Author : Edmund Morris
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060759747
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Edmund Morris and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 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. Edmund Morris, the author of three bestselling presidential biographies and a lifelong devotee of Beethoven, brings the great 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 the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces, such as his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies. With sensitivity and insight, Edmund 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."

Conversations with Beethoven

Author : Sanford Friedman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177886
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Beethoven written by Sanford Friedman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the famous composer’s notebooks, this biographical novel offers “a perfect portrait of an irascible genius” and “revelatory fossils of the last year of Beethoven’s anguished life” (Edmund White) Deaf as he was, Beethoven had to be addressed in writing, and he was always accompanied by a notebook in which people could scribble questions and comments. In a tour de force fiction invention, Conversations with Beethoven tells the story of the last year of Beethoven’s life almost entirely through such notebook entries. Friends, family, students, doctors, and others attend to the volatile Maestro, whose sometimes unpredictable and often very loud replies we infer. A fully fleshed and often very funny portrait of Beethoven emerges. He struggles with his music and with his health; he argues with and insults just about everyone. Most of all, he worries about his wayward—and beloved—nephew Karl. A large cast of Dickensian characters surrounds the great composer at the center of this wonderfully engaging novel, which deepens in the end to make a memorable music of its own.

Memories of Beethoven

Author : Gerhard von Breuning
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521484893
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Beethoven written by Gerhard von Breuning and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir provides a sensitive and unique insight into the life of Beethoven during his later years.

Beethoven

Author : Jan Swafford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 061805474X
Total Pages : 1107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Jan Swafford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.

Got Beethoven

Author : Paul Cassidy
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803130598
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Got Beethoven written by Paul Cassidy and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plenty of teenagers dream about becoming a rock star but how many 10yr olds dream about becoming a world-beating string quartet, and then go ahead and do it? Following on from Paul Cassidy's popular prequel, "Get Beethoven!", Got Beethoven is a brutally honest and relentlessly entertaining account of what it’s like to be in a band. All the fun, angst, rewards and toil are brought to life and given the authority that can only come from actually living the life. The quartet’s unique fifty year history and ground-breaking musical journey means that on the same page we can enjoy tales involving such diverse artists as, Sting, Anne Sophie von Otter, Bjork or Maria Joao Pires. Their global travels release strikingly diverse adventures from Kings College Cambridge to Roskilde, Montreux to St. James’ Palace. With something for everyone, Paul Cassidy’s highly personal story manages to be factual and informative whilst remaining infectiously entertaining. Suitable for all readers, from the autobiography lovers to those who just love a great story!

Beethoven

Author : Elliott Graeme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Elliott Graeme and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beethoven

Author : Graeme Elliott
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318017553
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Graeme Elliott and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Beethoven

Author : Elliott Graeme
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020051067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Elliott Graeme and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most iconic figures in classical music and this memoir provides readers with a unique look into his life and work. Elliott Graeme shares personal insights into the composer's life, illuminating his struggles with deafness and his financial difficulties. Readers interested in classical music and the life of this important composer will find this memoir to be an enlightening read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Beethoven's Hair

Author : Russell Martin
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767910818
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Hair written by Russell Martin and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the movie of the same name, an astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. When Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer, snipping a lock of Beethoven's hair as a keepsake--as was custom at the time--in the process. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. After Fremming's death, his daughter assumed ownership of the lock, and eventually consigned it for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in 1994. Subsequently, they and others instituted a series of complex forensic tests in the hope of finding the probable causes of the composer's chronically bad health, his deafness, and the final demise that Ferdinand Hiller had witnessed all those years ago. The results, revealed for the first time here, are the most compelling explanation yet offered for why one of the foremost musicians the world has ever known was forced to spend much of his life in silence. In Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin has created a rich historical treasure hunt, a tale of false leads, amazing breakthroughs, and incredible revelations. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science.

Beethoven

Author : Lewis Lockwood
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393050813
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Lewis Lockwood and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for the general reader, this book reveals how Beethoven's works reflect both his artistic individuality and the deepest philosophical and political currents of his age.

The Ninth

Author : Harvey Sachs
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812969073
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Ninth written by Harvey Sachs and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Vienna on May 7, 1824, was the most significant artistic event of the year—and the work remains one of the most precedent-shattering and influential compositions in the history of music. Described in vibrant detail by eminent musicologist Harvey Sachs, this symbol of freedom and joy was so unorthodox that it amazed and confused listeners at its unveiling—yet it became a standard for subsequent generations of creative artists, and its composer came to embody the Romantic cult of genius. In this unconventional, provocative book, Beethoven’s masterwork becomes a prism through which we may view the politics, aesthetics, and overall climate of the era. Part biography, part history, part memoir, The Ninth brilliantly explores the intricacies of Beethoven’s last symphony—how it brought forth the power of the individual while celebrating the collective spirit of humanity.

Beethoven

Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192912
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by John Suchet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ideal ‘first book’ on Beethoven” from one of the world’s most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist). Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer’s birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. Chronicling the landmark events in Beethoven’s career—from his competitive encounters with Mozart to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the well-known “Für Elise” and Moonlight Sonata—this book enhances understanding of the composer’s character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work. Beethoven scholarship is constantly evolving, and Suchet draws on the latest research, using rare source material (some of which has never before been published in English) to paint a complete and vivid portrait of the legendary prodigy. “A gripping and thought-provoking read.” —Howard Shelley, pianist and conductor “By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life.” —Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music

Beethoven

Author : Graeme Elliott
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290985451
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven written by Graeme Elliott and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Beethoven for a Later Age

Author : Edward Dusinberre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571317134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven for a Later Age written by Edward Dusinberre and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the history of the composition of Beethoven's string quartets as the backbone to his story, Edward Dusinberre - leader of the Takacs Quartet - recounts the life of the Quartet from its inception in Hungary, through emigration to the US and its present-day life of world renown. He also describes what it was like for him, as a young man fresh out of Julliard, to join the quartet as its (non-Hungarian) leader - a challenging task. Beethoven for a Later Age takes the reader inside the life of a quartet, vividly showing how four people make music together over a long period of time without becoming stale, or falling out. The key, the author argues, is in continual change and experiment - and these are at the heart of Beethoven's remarkable compositions for quartet.

Beethoven's Conversation Books

Author : Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271515
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Beethoven's Conversation Books written by Ludwig van Beethoven and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time, covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call late Beethoven.