The Beethoven obsession

Author(s)

• Ward, Brendan

Bibliographic Information

The Beethoven obsession

Brendan Ward

NewSouth, 2013

• : pbk

Note

"A NewSouth book"--t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Beethoven Obsession is the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano. It is a fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, starring a self-taught child prodigy who sold condoms and contraband to advance his studies; a fanatical inventor who took apart pianos as a child to examine their 'gizzards'; and a TV cameraman who became a music entrepreneur to translate the music he loved into an Australian first. Their unorthodox, historic odyssey created multi-award-winning, best-selling albums and changed their lives forever.

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Details

• NCID: BB25959559
• ISBN:
  • 9781742233956
• Country Code: at
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Sydney
• Pages/Volumes: x, 269 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Sonatas, piano
  • LCSH : Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
  • LCSH : Sonatas (Piano) -- Analysis, appreciation
  • FREE : Willems, Gerard