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Title: Beethoven's Hair : An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved by Russell Martin ISBN: 0-7679-0351-X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (30 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Boring book
Comment: Who doesn't love Beethoven? Who doesn't love Beethoven facts?
But Beethoven's Hair is a bore.
This book is analogous to submitting your theme for your 30-page semester paper and once you began to write you found your subject was worth about 3 pages.
Pumped up, poorly organized, wildly disarrayed, who can call this "masterful" except the author's mother?
Rating: 5
Summary: An Epic Drama and A sublime book about Beethoven!!
Comment: I bought this book last Saturday in Ottawa bookstore. I have not been able to put it down,or to stop reading it!! Beethoven has been my favorite composer all my life. I'm also deaf,and I love music with great passion. My family and I have suffered through great tragic times and years,yet reading this book,and the sublime,amazing dramatic history of Beethoven,his illnesses,his family,about a composer I am aware of,the very underrated composer,Ferdinand Hiller,and what became of Hiller's family,the incredible mystery of Beethoven's hair-this is a brilliant book!! Today,we have doctors,psychiatrists,in Beethoven's time-nothing. He suffered,horribly. And even so,Beethoven inspired us to go on living,through his immortal music. Bravo,Beethoven!!! Bravo,Russell Martin!!! Bravo,Hiller!! To finally realize the 200 year question of What Killed Beethoven? And Have that finally solved-Lead poisoning-deafness,stomach trouble,mood swings,it explains so much about this towering titan of music. We need Beethoven today more than ever.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful stuff
Comment: This is an extraordinary story of a relic (in the literal, Biblical sense) of the great composer, passed down through generations of a German musical family, through Nazi-occupied Denmark, and to modern Arizona where it was analyzed by modern medicine. Even if you don't agree with their conclusion for the reasons for Beethoven's eccentricity, it's a great read. The chapter "A Gift in Gilleleje" made me cry: a wonderful story of people helping people in one of the worst situations in modern history.
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Title: The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart ISBN: 0375758623 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization by Stuart Isacoff ISBN: 0375703306 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Picasso's War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World by Russell Martin ISBN: 0525946802 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: 24 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Beethoven by Maynard Solomon ISBN: 0825672686 Publisher: Schirmer Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Unwise Passions : A True Story Of A Remarkable Womanand The First Great Scandal Of 18th Century by Alan Pell Crawford ISBN: 068483474X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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