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Beethoven: Man of His Word : Undisclosed Evidence for His Immortal Beloved

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She backs up all of her statements with facts and sources, and writes in a very engaging, entertaining style. I already knew a lot about Beethoven and still learned a lot from this book. She tackles the long accepted misinterpretations that nobody had ever stood up against without claiming to have all the answers. She doesn't come to conclusions just to conclude something. She proves why the current theory is wrong and doesn't pretend to know exactly what happened, but rather opens up your mind about Beethoven and makes you realize that we really don't know who he was, and we may not ever know. People have tried to close the mystery just to close it, but there just isn't enough evidence to be sure.

This book is excellent. Ms. Altman deals only with the facts and does a great job digging in to show why her information is correct. The other aulthors have done a lot of embellishing, but Ms. Altman obviously worked hard to find the truth. It's well worth the money. You'll learn things about this composer that you never knew before. Thank you for bringing a fresh new concept to nonfiction, Gail -- TRUTH!

This book has touched me well, actually beethoven,... what interest me in this book was that I played piano and I have always like beethoven,.... His music has a deeper feeling that compare to mozart to me,... mozart always has lighter tone in his,... Anyway,...that is why I found this book and the history about his life really touchy and it is correct that this book has information that I have never known about beethoven,... overall, I think it is a great story and I think if you want to know about beethoven this is a great book,... I play and hear his music in a different way now,...