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Book Review By Bobby Blades
Beethoven: The Universal Composer by Edmund Morris

Written by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Edmund Morris, Beethoven: The Universal Composer is a look at the man and music of Beethoven. It covers the cirumstances around his birth and how he grew to be a child prodigy: his ancestry of two generations of singers shows that music was in his blood. It also shows his ill health, his hearing loss, and his flirtations and love: in love with his doctor's daughter Therese Malfatti who rejects him. The book also eloquently describes what stimulated the genuis musical compositions, both popular and rare works. And it paints the picture of a genuis recluse, desperately wanting to secure (adopt) his nephew Karl to be his heir.


Plot & Themes
job/profession:
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Phys disability/mental struggle? Yes
Struggle with - physical disability/sickness
Period of greatest activity? - 1600-1899

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - German
Unusual characteristics:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - Eastern Europe
Century: - 19th century

Writing Style
Graphic sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: -
How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 51%-75% of book
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