Beethoven

基本信息

Format Hardback | 1104 pages

Dimensions 152 x 229 x 47.24mm | 1,428.82g

Publication date 05 Aug 2014

Publisher HOUGHTON MIFFLIN

Language English

Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified

ISBN10 061805474X

ISBN13 9780618054749

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

這是一個既獻給偉大音樂家，也獻給一顆偉大心靈的故事。

貝多芬的一生難稱幸福。世人嚮往的愛情和圓滿家庭與他無緣，病痛與磨難始終徘徊不散，健康的體魄也變成奢求，他要藉助紙條才能與他人交流。但他從未喪失對生活的熱情，始終渴望成為一個善良、高貴，併為人類獻身的人。

他歷經磨難，*終成就輝煌。

揚·斯瓦福德在這本厚達870頁的書中傾注了大量心血。像我們一樣，他被貝多芬吸引，先是被音樂，然後是被這個人本身吸引。是什麼造就了《月光》，是什麼造就了《悲愴》，是什麼讓人們看到貝多芬的名字，腦海中便響起一陣陣旋律，不論是是細膩優美的，還是振聾發聵的。這本書想要做的，就是在旋律之中還原貝多芬的真實形象。這個形象也許厭世、粗魯、多疑，卻有血有肉，令那些音樂作品更加立體，更有韻味。

The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.

Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world’s most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up and imbibed the ideas that would shape all of his future work. Swafford then tracks his subject to Vienna, capital of European music, where Beethoven built his career in the face of critical incomprehension, crippling ill health, romantic rejection, and “fate’s hammer,” his ever-encroaching deafness. Throughout, Swafford offers insightful readings of Beethoven’s key works.

More than a decade in the making, this will be the standard Beethoven biography for years to come.

作者簡介

揚·斯瓦福德（1946— ），美國作曲家、作家。斯瓦福德以優異成績畢業於哈佛大學，後於耶魯大學音樂學院取得碩士以及博士學位。主要以一系列音樂家傳記而聞名，這些傳記包括《查爾斯·埃夫斯傳》《勃拉姆斯傳》《貝多芬傳》等，並著有《古典音樂經典指南》等。

Jan Swafford is an award-winning composer whose music has been played around the US and abroad by ensembles including the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Vermont, and Harrisburg, and by the Dutch Radio Orchestra. He is the author of Johannes Brahms: A Biography, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Charles Ives: A Life with Music, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the PEN/Winship Award. He is also the author of The Vintage Guide to Classical Music. His writing and commentary on music has been featured on NPR and in Slate, the Guardian, Gramophone, and elsewhere. Swafford teaches music history, theory, and composition at the Boston Conservatory.