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A "magisterial" (New York Review of Books) work offering a fresh look at Beethoven's life, career, and milieu.

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will—or at least should—appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary). Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. 50 illustrations.

This brilliant portrayal weaves Beethoven's musical and biographical stories into their historical and artistic contexts. Lewis Lockwood sketches the turbulent personal, historical, political, and cultural frameworks in which Beethoven worked and examines their effects on his music. "The result is that rarest of achievements, a profoundly humane work of scholarship that will--or at least should--appeal to specialists and generalists in equal measure" (Terry Teachout, Commentary). Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. "Lewis Lockwood has written a biography of Beethoven in which the hours that Beethoven spent writing music--that is, his methods of working, his interest in contemporary and past composers, the development of his musical intentions and ideals, his inner musical life, in short--have been properly integrated with the external events of his career. The book is invaluable." --Charles Rosen "Lockwood writes with poetry and clarity--a rare combination. I especially enjoyed the connection that he makes between the works of Beethoven and the social and political context of their creation--we feel closer to Beethoven the man without losing our wonder at his genius." --Emanuel Ax "The magnum opus of an illustrious Beethoven scholar. From now on, we will all turn to Lockwood's Beethoven: The Music and the Life for insight and instruction." --Maynard Solomon "This is truly the Beethoven biography for the intelligent reader. Lewis Lockwood speaks in his preface of writing on Beethoven's works at 'a highly accessible descriptive level.' But he goes beyond that. His discussion of the music, based on a deep knowledge of its context and the composition processes behind it, explains, elucidates, and is not afraid to evaluate; while the biographical chapters, clearly and unfussily written, and taking full account of the newest thinking on Beethoven, align closely with the musical discussion. The result is a deeply perceptive book that comes as close as can be to presenting the man and the music as a unity."--Stanley Sadie, editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians "Impressive for both its scholarship and its fresh insights, this landmark work--fully accessible to the interested amateur--immediately takes its place among the essential references on this composer and his music."--Bob Goldfarb, KUSC-FM 91.5 "Lockwood writes like an angel: lucid, enthusiastic, stirring and enlightening. Beethoven has found his ablest interpreter."--Jonathan Keates, The Spectator "There is no better survey of Beethoven's compositions for a wide audience."--Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times Book Review

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Illustrations	xiii
Preface	xv
Prologue. Youth, Maturity, Old Age: Three Letters	3
1787: The Death of Beethoven''s Mother	3
1812: Letter to a Child	8
1826: The Old Child	12
Life and Works	15
Part 1	The Early Years 1770-1792	
1.	Beginnings	25
Bonn as a Musical Center	25
Bach from the Hands of Neefe	31
Kant, Schiller, and the Enlightenment	35
Max Franz and the Mozart Legacy	38
Family, Friends, and Patrons	42
To Vienna in Search of Mozart	46
The Last Years in Bonn	47
Waldstein''s Prophecy	50
2.	Music of the Bonn Years	53
Early Keyboard Music	53
"This passage has been stolen from Mozart"	55
Composing and Sketching	62
Cantatas for Two Emperors	64
Part 2	The First Maturity 1792-1802	
3.	The First Years in Vienna	69
The Political Atmosphere	69
Vienna as a Musical Center	73
Confronting the Viennese Aristocracy	74
Haydn	80
Playing for an Elector and a King	86
Entering the Publishing World	88
4.	Music of the First Vienna Years	93
Revising Earlier Works	93
Chamber Music and Piano Sonatas	96
5.	Years of Crisis	111
Deafness	111
The Heiligenstadt Testament	115
6.	Music for and with Piano	124
The "New Way" and the Early Sketchbooks	124
A Laboratory of Invention: More Piano Sonatas	130
From Convention to Originality: Piano Variations	140
New Violin Sonatas	142
The Earlier Piano Concertos	144
7.	Music for Orchestra and the First Quartets	147
The First Symphony and the Prometheus Ballet	147
The French Dimension and Military Music	151
The Second Symphony	156
Opus 18: "I have now learned how to write string quartets"	159
8.	The First Maturity: An Overview	169
Part 3	The Second Maturity 1802-1812	
9.	Beethoven in the New Age	181
Napoleon and Self-Made Greatness	181
Beethoven and His Milieu	187
Relations with Women	196
10.	New Symphonic Ideals	202
The Heroic and the Beautiful	202
The Third Symphony (Eroica)	204
The Fourth Symphony	214
The Fifth and Sixth ("Pastoral") Symphonies	217
The Seventh and Eighth Symphonies	230
11.	The Mature Concertos	238
The New Symphonie concertante: The Triple Concerto	238
The Fourth Piano Concerto	241
The Violin Concerto	245
The "Emperor" Concerto	248
12.	Music for the Stage	252
The Opera Leonore and Its Overtures	255
The Coriolanus Overture	262
Incidental Music for Goethe''s Egmont	266
13.	Vocal Music	269
Oratorio and Mass	269
The Songs	274
14.	Beethoven at the Keyboard	280
Improvising and Composing at the Piano	280
Pianos	288
The "Waldstein" and "Appassionata" Sonatas	292
Piano Sonatas Opp. 79-81a	299
Lyrical and Monumental Chamber Music	303
15.	String Quartets	312
The "Razumovsky" Quartets	312
The "Harp" Quartet and the "Quartetto Serioso"	325
Part 4	The Final Maturity 1813-1827	
16.	The "Fallow" Years	333
The Congress of Vienna	334
Lighter Works	336
Celebrating Wellington''s Victory	337
Fidelio	341
New Sonatas	342
An die ferne Geliebte	344
Emergence of the Late Style	346
17.	Beethoven''s Inner and Outer Worlds	349
Isolation and Deafness	349
The Guardianship Struggle	355
"The human brain ... is not a salable commodity"	358
The Final Projects	363
18.	Bringing the Past into the Present	366
The Third Maturity	366
Beethoven''s Knowledge of Bach and Handel	370
19.	Late Piano Music	377
The Hammerklavier Sonata, Opus 106	377
Piano Sonatas Opp. 109-111	384
The "Diabelli" Variations	391
The Late Bagatelles	395
20.	The Celestial and the Human	400
The Missa solemnis	400
The Ninth Symphony	411
The Political Background of the Ninth	413
Changing Views of the Ninth	417
Composing the Ninth	424
The Character of the Ninth	427
21.	Timeless Music: The Last Quartets	441
Introduction	441
Opus 127	446
Opus 132	452
Opus 130 and the Grand Fugue	458
Opus 131	468
Opus 135	479
Final Thoughts	488
Notes	491
Chronology	551
Bibliography	559
Classified Index of Beethoven''s Works	579
Index of Beethoven''s Works by Opus Number	585
General Index	591