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02476aam a2200337 i 4500 001 A445442E969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210406010037 008 200401t20212020nyua 000 p eng 010 $a 2020012437 020 $a 0593317726 020 $a 9780593317723 035 $a (OCoLC)1132243134 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CLE $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6066 A2739 B44 2021 100 1 $a Padel, Ruth, $d 1946- $e author. 245 10 $a Beethoven variations : $b poems on a life / $c Ruth Padel. 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2021. 300 $a 131 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book"--title page verso. 520 $a "A fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius, from the author of the best-selling Darwin: A Life in Poems. Ruth Padel's new sequence of poems, in four movements, is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world's greatest composers. She uncovers the man behind the music, charting his private thoughts and feelings through letters, diaries, sketchbooks, and the conversation books he used as his hearing declined. She gives us Beethoven as a battered four-year-old, weeping at the clavier; the young virtuoso pianist agonized by his encroaching deafness; the passionate, heartbroken lover; the clumsy eccentric making coffee with exactly sixty beans. Padel's quest takes her into the heart of Europe and back to her own musical childhood: Her great-grandfather, who studied in Leipzig with a pupil of Beethoven's, became a concert pianist before migrating to Britain; her parents met making music; and Padel grew up playing the viola, Beethoven's instrument as a child. Her book is a poet and string player's intimate connection across the centuries with an artist who, though increasingly isolated, ended even his most harrowing works on a note of hope"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Beethoven, Ludwig van, $d 1770-1827 $v Poetry. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Padel, Ruth, 1946- $t Beethoven variations. $b First American edition $d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020 $z 9780593317730 $w (DLC) 2020012438 941 $a 3 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023123.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210804012129.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210508010132.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A445442E969D11EBB000DAFF5DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search