This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven\'s musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts.
Finalist for the. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will or at least should appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary).
Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music.
This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven\'s musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts