Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Biography & Autobiography
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Synopsis
Ludwig van Beethoven, considered by many the world’s greatest composer, achieved his ambitions against almost insurmountable difficulties: the effects of a bullying and drunken father and growing deafness and mounting ill-health, despite which he composed some of his most brilliant works, including the Eroica symphony and the Missa Solemnis. Telling the story of his life and work, this book describes his early employment as a court musician, his studies with Haydn in Vienna and his work during the French Revolution, rise of Napoleon and subsequent French occupation of Vienna. Despite the fact that Beethoven becomes more financially successful after Napoleon's defeat, his emotional life remained tumultuous with several unhappy love affairs and continuous worry over his suicidal nephew, Karl.
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