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a| Beethoven :
b| the man revealed /
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a| New York :
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c| ©2012
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a| xv, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
b| illustrations (chiefly color) ;
c| 21 cm
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a| This edition is adapted from Beethoven : the man revealed published in 2012 in England by Elliott & Thompson.
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a| Includes bibliographical references and index.
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a| Illuminates Beethoven's difficult childhood, his struggle to find a wife, his ungovernable temper, his emotional volatility, his tendency to push away those trying to help him, and in middle age his obsessive compulsion to control his nephew's life.
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t| The Spaniard: in which a momentous life begins --
t| The right teacher: this boy could become 'a second Mozart' --
t| Meeting Mozart: watch out for that boy --
t| Word spreads: young Beethoven as kitchen scullion --
t| Impressing the Viennese: but Haydn feels the wrath of an angry young man --
t| My poor hearing haunts me: but there is 'a dear charming girl who loves me' --
t| Only my art held me back: in which Beethoven considers suicide --
t| Egyptian hieroglyphics: Napoleon is no more than 'a common tyrant' --
t| O, beloved J!: musical failure, but will Beethoven succeed in love? --
t| A deeply immoral woman: Beethoven holds the most important concert of his life, and is offered a job --
t| Under cannon fire: in which Beethoven once again tries his luck at love --
t| Immortal beloved: 'my angel, my all, my very self' --
t| An utterly untamed personality: Beethoven turns again to his 'poor shipwrecked opera' --
t| Into the witness box: how the single letter 'o' ruined Beethoven's life --
t| A musical gift from London: how Rossini found Beethoven 'disorderly and dirty' --
t| 'I want to be a soldier': in which Beethoven gets drunk with friends --
t| Two pistols and gunpowder: an invitation to get away from it all --
t| Frightening the oxen: 'The greatest composer of the century, and you treated him like a servant!' --
t| Terminally ill: 'His face was damp, he spat blood' --
t| The last master: 'He was an artist, but a man as well.'
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