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A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written. . . . Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography. -- The New York Times

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  • Paperback: 542 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press; Revised edition (May 1, 1967)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0691027188
  • ISBN-13: 978-0691027180
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
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If you want to live with Beethoven, the Master himself, buy this book and the other volume as well. The facts and details of his life are exceptional.
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BEETHOVEN might well have adopted Kotzebue's title: "The Most Remarkable Year of my Life" and written his own history for 1814, in glowing and triumphant language; but now the theme modulates into a soberer key. Read the first page
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