Maynard solomon beethoven biography

Maynard Solomon is a leading authority on Beethoven, winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award for "Beethoven Essays" and the author of Mozart: A Life.
Includes a 30-page bibliographical essay, numerous illustrations, and a full-color pictorial biography of the composer.
Maynard Elliott Solomon was a musicologist and record producer.

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Beethoven - Hardcover

Synopsis

The definitive biography of Beethoven, “already a classic of its kind” (The New York Times), setting the world standard in composer biographies

Maynard Solomon’s Beethoven has long been firmly established among music lovers and scholars alike as the standard modern biography of Beethoven. Now it is thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded by the author to incorporate new materials and the findings of later research to further illuminate the human dimension that underlies a series of creative events unique in the history of civilization.

In Beethoven, Solomon movingly traces the slow process by which the renowned composer reconstructed his life and ultimately arrived at a new mode of self-understanding, offering probing analyses of the composer’s deafness, romantic longings, and political outlook, and of his reshaping of the classical tradition. Solomon divides the life and works of the composer into four periods: Beethoven’s early years fraught with family troubles, and his emergence as an exemplary you

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Ludwig van Beethoven's beginnings were profoundly influenced by his family and early environment, which played an essential role in shaping one of the greatest composers the world has ever known. Born on December 17, 1770, in the city of Bonn, Germany, Beethoven was the son of Johann van Beethoven, a musician at the court of Bonn, and Maria Magdalena Keverich. Johann, although ambitious and keen to nurture his son’s musical prowess, was a problematic figure, battling alcoholism and exhibiting a harsh and often abusive parenting style. Despite these challenges, the familial environment was heavily infused with music, thanks to Johann's position and his desire to mold Ludwig into a prodigy akin to the young Mozart. From a very young age, Beethoven displayed extraordinary musical talent. His father recognized this and attempted to accelerate his son’s musical education, often with rigorous and sometimes severe methods. By the age of seven, Beethoven had already performed publicly, impressing audiences with his precocious skills. His early instruction in music came primarily from his

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Maynard Solomon

American music executive and musicologist (1930–2020)

Maynard Elliott Solomon (January 5, 1930 – September 28, 2020) was an American music executive and musicologist. In his career in the music industry, he was a co-founder of Vanguard Records as well as a music producer.^[1] Later, he took up musicology, becoming well known for his biographical studies of Viennese Classical composers, specifically Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert.^[2]

Education

Having attended New York's High School of Music & Art, Solomon graduated Phi Beta Kappa^[3] from Brooklyn College, CUNY, with a BA in 1950, subsequently pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University from 1950 to 1952. In 1979 he became adjunct associate professor at the Graduate School, CUNY, and between 1988 and 1994 held visiting professorships at SUNYStony Brook, Columbia University, Harvard University and Yale University, joining the graduate faculty of the Juilliard School of Music in 1998.^[1]^[4]

Career in the recording industry

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