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02857aam a2200397 i 4500 001 82C127061FB111EEBAEC81A559ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230711010159 008 210920s2022 nyua b 001 0beng c 010 $a 2021046076 020 $a 0190051736 020 $a 9780190051730 035 $a (OCoLC)1322110921 040 $a DPL $b eng $e rda $c DPL $d TOH $d NYP $d EAU $d DLC $d OCLCF $d TDF $d JIM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-au--- $a e-au--- 050 00 $a ML410.B4 $b B58 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Bonds, Mark Evan, $e author. 245 10 $a Ludwig van Beethoven : $b a very short introduction / $c Mark Evan Bonds. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xviii, 143 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 18 cm 490 1 $a Very short introductions ; $v 705 500 $a "Published in hardcover as Beethoven : Variations on a Life in 2020"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Scowl -- The Life -- Ideals -- Deafness -- Love -- Money -- Politics -- Composing -- Early-Middle-Late -- The Music -- "Beethoven". 520 $a "Despite the ups and downs of his personal life and professional career - even in the face of deafness - Beethoven remained remarkably consistent in his most basic convictions about his art. This inner consistency provides the key to understanding the composer's life and works more than 250 years after his birth in 1770. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing from a variety of perspectives whatever occupied him: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to recognize and unlock so many possibilities from each helps explain the emotional breadth and richness of his output as a whole, from the heaven-storming Ninth Symphony to the eccentric Eighth, and from the arcane Great Fugue to the crowd-pleasing Wellington's Victory. Beethoven's works are a series of variations on his life. The iconic scowl so familiar from later images of the composer is but one of many attitudes he could assume and project through his music. The supposedly characteristic frown and furrowed brow, moreover, came only after his time. Discarding tired myths about the composer, this study proposes a new way of listening to Beethoven by hearing his music as an expression of his entire self, not just his scowling self"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Beethoven, Ludwig van, $d 1770-1827. 650 0 $a Composers $z Germany $v Biography. 650 0 $a Composers $z Austria $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Very short introductions ; $v 705. 941 $a 1 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409044644.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=82C127061FB111EEBAEC81A559ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIMInitiate Another SILO Locator Search