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Beethoven variations : poems on a life
- Title
- Beethoven variations : poems on a life / Ruth Padel.
- Author
- Padel, Ruth, 1946-
- Publication
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2020.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-3513 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 131 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Ruth Padel's new sequence of poems, in four movements, is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world's greatest composers. She uncovers the man behind the music, charting his private thoughts and feelings through letters, diaries, sketchbooks, and the conversation books he used as his hearing declined. She gives us Beethoven as a battered four-year-old, weeping at the clavier; the young virtuoso pianist agonized by his encroaching deafness; the passionate, heartbroken lover; the clumsy eccentric making coffee with exactly sixty beans. Padel's quest takes her into the heart of Europe and back to her own musical childhood: Her great-grandfather, who studied in Leipzig with a pupil of Beethoven's, became a concert pianist before migrating to Britain; her parents met making music; and Padel grew up playing the viola, Beethoven's instrument as a child. Her book is a poet and string player's intimate connection across the centuries with an artist who, though increasingly isolated, ended even his most harrowing works on a note of hope." --Amazon.com.
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Poems.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographical poetry.
- Poetry.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-3513
- ISBN
- 1784742511
- 9781784742515
- 9781473558588 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020376921
- OCLC
- 1099888626
- Author
- Padel, Ruth, 1946- author.
- Title
- Beethoven variations : poems on a life / Ruth Padel.
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2020.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781473558588
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-3513