Beethoven, the romantic genius, tormented and fascinating man capable of composing the most sublime pieces, lived his time with extraordinary intensity. Jan Swafford recreates in a pleasant and profound way the life of man, composer and genius. Starting from the Bonn of the Enlightenment in which Beethoven grew and became imbued with the rationalism and antidogmatism that would shape his later work, even Vienna, the capital of European music where the composer completed his career, accompanied the musician in the many vicissitudes of his life: the incomprehension of the critic, his delicate health, his amorous failures and his irremediable deafness, which did not prevent his consecration as a mythical genius. A beautiful book, now a reference work.
