Bonds, Mark Evan - Beethoven: Variations on a Life

Beethoven's music expresses far more than just the iconic scowl we so often imagine when listening to his works. In this fresh perspective, Mark Evan Bonds proposes a new way of hearing Beethoven's music as a series of variations on the composer's entire self, not just his scowling self.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
1. The Scowl
2. The Life
3. Ideals
4. Deafness
5. Love
6. Money
7. Politics
8. Composing
9. Early-Middle-Late
10. The Music
11. Beethoven
Notes
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