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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I watched Beethoven all the time growing up. Whether it was at home or at a friend's sleepover, I ...

Does music have charms to soothe the savage beast? Or is there a savage beast in some of the greatest music itself? The biographical movie “Immortal Beloved” takes Ludwig van Beethoven, the matchless ...

Music lovers who are familiar with Jan Swafford’s earlier biographies of Brahms and Charles Ives will need no further incitement to read this mammoth but compelling biography of a composer arguably ...

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Following Jan Swafford through the thousand-plus pages of his new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is hardly as exhilarating as listening to the music of the peerless composer. But the stately rhythm ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was and still is boxed into early, middle, and late periods; the last three of his violin-and-piano sonatas, taken together, fairly race through those checkpoints. The ...