Beethoven

Exploring the music by category, and tracing Beethoven's vast development in style from the early to the later works, Denis Matthews sets Beethoven's problems of patronage, the tragedy of his deafness, and many other aspects of his life and personality against the political and socialupheavals of the time: the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.Now reissued in the new Master Musicians format and livery with an updated Bibliography by Barry Cooper.