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Padel s imagery and imagination took me deeper into Beethoven than many biographies I ve read. Anthony Tommasini The New York TimesA fascinating poetic journey into the mind and heart of a musical genius from the author of the celebrated Darwin: A Life in PoemsRuth Padel's new sequence of poems in four movements is a personal voyage through the life and legend of one of the world's greatest composers. She uncovers the man behind the music charting his private thoughts and feelings through letters diaries sketchbooks and the conversation books he used as his hearing declined. She gives us Beethoven as a battered four-year-old weeping at the clavier the young virtuoso pianist agonized by his encroaching deafness the passionate heartbroken lover the clumsy eccentric making coffee with exactly sixty beans. Padel's quest takes her into the heart of Europe and back to her own musical childhood: Her great-grandfather who studied in Leipzig with a pupil of Beethoven's became a concert pianist before migrating to Britain her parents met making music and Padel grew up playing the viola Beethoven's instrument as a child. Her book is a poet and string player's intimate connection across the centuries with an artist who though increasingly isolated ended even his most harrowing works on a note of hope.

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