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Title: Beethoven Essays by Maynard Solomon ISBN: 0-674-06379-1 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Well-written psychoanalysis of Beethoven's life and works.
Comment: After having read Solomon's work regarding Mozart, I was interested to see his work about Beethoven. Interestingly, although his _Beethoven_ was shorter, I found his theories much more convincing and interesting in the latter. The work synthesized multiple facts about the composer, including the near-psychotic attacks on his sister-in-law, Johanna, and a chapter regarding the Immortal Beloved, who, I am now convinced, was Antoine Brentano. This chapter was allthewhile extremely moving--it nearly brought me to tears. At the same time, although I was treated to a brief overview of Beethoven's life, I feel that there are large gaps in the biography that were simply glossed over, since they were not critical to Solomon's psychoanalytic theses. As a result, I am now tempted to find Thayer-Forbes biography to fill in these holes. Yet, in all, it was an extremely enjoyable read.

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