Beethoven Books – The Most Popular Books on Beethoven
Beethoven Books: Find a collection of the most popular books on Beethoven
covering every aspect of his life and works.
Beethoven has been one of the most influential and respected composers of all time. The amount of work he has done throughout his life is phenomenal, and his life and works continues to be a part of the study of many music colleges.
Beethoven is not just restricted to students and intellectuals, his music is very popular and still continues to be used as background score for many movies and television shows.
Popular Beethoven Music
If you are interested in reading more about him as well his works, here is a collection of the most popular Beethoven books.
These books cover every aspect of his life and his works; explanations in the form of additional notes and interpretations from the authors are provided in most of these Beethoven books.
– by Elliot Forbes (Editor)
– by Elliot Forbes (Editor)
A must for any Beethoven admirer! Right from Beethoven’s family to the composer’s demise, everything is covered in Thayer’s biography. Recommended, along with Vol. 2! These are more of facts-based books without emphasis on interpretations.
– by Anne-Louise Coldicott, Nicholas Marston, William Drabkin, and Barry Cooper(Editor)
This book is well-organized and has a very exhaustive structure. It has everything that you could ever want to know about Beethoven’s life and times.
– by Lewis Lockwood (Author)
This is a good book for readers who are new to Beethoven’s music, and who are looking to increase their understanding of Beethoven and his major works.
– by Edmund Morris (Author)
This is one of the better written short biographies; gives a reasonably comprehensive picture of Beethoven’s life.
– by Maynard Solomon
Solomon’s interpretations will help non-academics and non-musicologists to better understand Beethoven’s work. This book is more of an interpretation of Beethoven’s life and music rather than a biography; notable as well as controversial for its psychoanalytical approach!
– by Maynard Solomon
Another outstanding book from Maynard Solomon, it focuses on the music of Beethoven’s third period. It takes the readers through the intellectual and emotional changes in Beethoven’s outlook that likely contributed to Beethoven’s late masterworks.
– by Anton Felix
This is for anyone who would be interested in reading a contemporary account of Beethoven’s life, and the profound effect that he had on at least one of his associates. The author gives plenty of explanations as and when needed throughout the book.
Audio CD with an accompanying booklet
– [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD) by Jeremy Siepmann (Narrator)
Audio CD with a thick booklet that offers essays on the historical background, the position of the composer in his time, a look at the major works, a listening plan, recommended readings, personalities, a calendar of the artist’s life, a glossary, a discography and the text of the recording’s narration. This booklet is worth the price of the set alone.
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