"Zuo qu jia." . . "Yin yue jia zhuan ji De guo." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Composers & Musicians." . . "Yin yue jia De guo zhuan ji." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General." . . . . . . "Presents a biography of late eighteenth-century German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, and chronicles his childhood, his extraordinary achievements in his music, and his struggles with incurable deafness." . . . "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. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of the most powerful and privileged aristocrats in Germany and Austria, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. But Beethoven's achievement rests in his immortal music. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces, such as his iconic Fifth and Ninth symphonies. With sensitivity and insight, Edmund Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived \"on the other side of silence.\""@en . "Biographie"@en . . "Biographie" . . . "Yu shi, ming yun lai qiao men : Beiduofen zhuan" . . "Beethoven 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. Biographer Morris brings the composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of powerful and privileged aristocrats, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces. Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived \"on the other side of silence." . . . . . "Beethoven the universal composer"@en . . . . . "Beethoven" . "Bei duo fen chuan" . "Biography" . "Biography"@en . "Yu shi,ming yun lai qiao men : bei duo fen chuan" . "Beethoven : the universal composer" . "Beethoven : the universal composer"@en . . "於是,命運來敲門 : 貝多芬傳" . . . . "Beiduofen zhuan" . . . . . . . . . "貝多芬傳" . . "|Beethoven" . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . "於是, 命運來敲門 : 貝多芬傳" . . . . "Beethoven 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. Biographer Morris brings the composer to life as a man of astonishing complexity and overpowering intelligence. A gigantic, compulsively creative personality unable to tolerate constraints, he was not so much a social rebel as an astute manipulator of powerful and privileged aristocrats, at a time when their world was threatened by the rise of Napoleon. Struggling against progressive, incurable deafness (which he desperately tried to keep secret), he nonetheless produced towering masterpieces. Morris illuminates Beethoven's life, including his interactions with the women he privately lusted for but held at bay, and his work, whose grandeur and beauty were conceived \"on the other side of silence.\"--Publisher description."@en . . . "Inmerc (Wormer)" . . "MUSIC Individual Composer & Musician." . . "Composers Austria Biography." . .