Passion and Glory By John Suchet

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The concluding volume of John Suchet's fascinating fictional biography of Ludwig van Beethoven features the great dramas of the composer's final years, as his growing deafness becomes the source for unrelenting misery and ever more sublime music. This is the era of the Battle Symphony, the Seventh, the Diabelli Variations, the Missa Solemnis, the Ninth, and the Ode To Joy, of monumental pieces composed in solitude and performed with ferocious energy to rapturous audiences in Austria and Germany. After his love for his Eternally Beloved is finally consigned to the past, Beethoven's return to Vienna in 1813 marks the advent of a gloriously creative period as he discovers renewed artistic purpose amid a city celebrating the defeat of Napoleon. Meticulously researched yet told in a vividly readable style, this is a story as immortal as the music itself.