Immortal
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2020
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978-1-78965-115-7 (ISBN)
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The startling love story at the heart of one of music’s most famous and enduring mysteries
Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'?
After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth?
Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
Who was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'?
After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth?
Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions...
Jessica Duchen writes for and about music, encompassing fiction, biography, journalism, plays, narrated concerts and opera librettos (notably Roxanna Panufnik’s Silver Birch at Garsington Opera, 2017). She was classical music correspondent for the Independent from 2004 to 2016 and has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Observer and BBC Music Magazine. Her biographies of the composers Gabriel Fauré and Erich Wolfgang Korngold have met with wide acclaim and her novel Ghost Variations ( 2016) was chosen by John Suchet in the Daily Mail as his Best Read of 2016. Jessica was born in London and studied music at Cambridge. She lives in London with her violinist husband. @jessicaduchen
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.10.2020 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Historische Romane |
Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane | |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78965-115-8 / 1789651158 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78965-115-7 / 9781789651157 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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