EAN: 9780593317723

BEETHOVEN VARIATIONS - RUTH PADEL GEBUNDEN

Padel s imagery and imagination took me deeper into Beethoven than many biographies I ve read.
Anthony Tommasini  The New York TimesA fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a
musical genius  from the author of the celebrated Darwin: A Life in PoemsRuth 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.

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