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The character of a genius : Beethoven in perspective / Peter J. Davies.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B4 D29 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Peter J., 1937-2005.
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of music and dance 0193-9041 ; no. 60.
- Contributions to the study of music and dance, 0193-9041 ; no. 60
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Psychology.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
- Composers--Austria--Biography.
- Composers.
- Psychology.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiii, 319 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
- Contents:
- 1. Childhood and Adolescence 1
- 2. Religious Beliefs and Attitudes 19
- 3. Beethoven's Religious Music 55
- 4. Work, Habits, and Pastimes 75
- 5. Beethoven's Personality I: Paranoid Character 135
- 6. Beethoven's Personality II: Other Traits, Stresses, Humor, and the Eternal Feminine 183
- 7. Beethoven's Personality III: Manic-Depressive Tendencies: The Suffering Depressive Composer 217
- 8. Beethoven's Personality IV: Manic-Depressive Tendencies: Upswings of Mood, Sanity, Genetics, Creativity 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313319138
- OCLC:
- 45708202
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