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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The year is 1826. Ludwig van Beethoven (Tobias Moretti) faces the final stanza of his storied career. Deaf and defiant, he recalls memories of his youth, when as an eight-year-old prodigy he comes under the tutelage of the Bonn court organist, Christian Gottlob Neefe. Years later after an encounter with Mozart, the young “Louis” begins to study under Joseph Haydn in Vienna, but family tragedies and unfulfilled love leave a lasting mark that haunts...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 281 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an act of superhuman heroism. But the truth is that Beethoven's response to his deafness was entirely human. And by demystifying what he did, we can learn a great deal about Beethoven's music. Perhaps no...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of the Austrian composer, along with the story of a lock of his hair cut by a barber after his death, which was kept by various owners and the analysis of which revealed the high level of lead present in the composer's body.
5) Wittgenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
59 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Documents of sociology volume 1
Publisher
Essay Press
Pub. Date
[c1971]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 72 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
8) Wittgenstein
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1973
Physical Desc
ix, 240 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlas Books/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
243 p. : port. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
xv, 389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
lluminates 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.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.
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