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Mar 18, 2021
3 minutes
Beethoven’s Lives
Lewis Lockwood
Boydell Press 208pp (hb) £18.99
This short book is well timed: with the avalanche of Beethoven biographies reaching a climax, we needed someone to sort the wheat from the chaff, and to show how these books reflect the mood of their times. No surprise, for example, that Beethoven commentaries in Nazi Germany should stress the Aryan purity of their subject; interesting that Richard Wagner should have nursed ambitions (never realised) to write a life which would be ‘more
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