Beethoven: The Man Revealed

"An ideal 'first book' on Beethoven" from one of the world's most eminent classical music aficionados (Booklist).

Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer's difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew's life, and the excruciating decline of his...