Book DescriptionA "magisterial" (New York Review of Books) work offering a fresh look at Beethoven's life, career, and milieu This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural огчкг frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that willor at least shouldappeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary) Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 50 illustrations.  К середине2005 г 604 стр ISBN 0393326381.