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| | 3. |  | Beethoven
from Schirmer Books
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I found this book unreadable and extremely boring. It was so dense with meaningless detail that the narrative flow virtually ceased - the endless inclusion of irrelevant detail sucked the life right out of the book for me. After a while I began skimming the pages in an effort to escape the onslaught... more info
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| | 5. |  | Beethoven: The Music and the Life
from W. W. Norton & Company
Price: $30.36
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As a college undergrad I took a music course taught by Lockwood many years ago. He was good as a teacher, and I knew he was a LvB scholar, so I always hoped to see a book about LvB's music. After I left college he published not one but at least two such books.
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| | 6. |  | Beethoven's Letters
from Dover Publications
Price: $13.45
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Beethoven's Letters
As a pianist, teacher, adjudicator, examiner, critic and author, I am often presented with performances of Beethoven's works that offer no insight or understanding of Beethoven the man or his music! When giving master classes, I encourage students to read his letters and... more info
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| | 9. | [no image] | The Beethoven Quartet Companion
from University of California Press
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This book consists of a collection of essays about topics relevant to Beethoven's work on his sixteen string quartets, as well as a quartet-by-quartet analysis, much like you would see in program notes (only more thorough). The essay writers approach the quartets from several different angles: some... more info
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| | 10. |  | Beethoven As I Knew Him (The Norton library)
from W. W. Norton & Company
Price: $26.05
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I feel like I'm a fly on the wall in Beethovens apartment...well, one of his many apartments. Can't get any closer than this too someone who lived that many years ago. I also find it hard to believe that a man like Rossini would spend two years in the same city as Beethoven and not meet him. I'm... more info
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