Was the Romantic Beethoven Really a “Radical Evolutionary”?
Was the Romantic Beethoven Really a “Radical Evolutionary”?
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Of all the standard myths and accepted truths of the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, the idea of the “Romantic” Beethoven—the embodiment of Germanic sturm und drang and 19th century revolution—clings the most. In a massive new biography, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, Jan Swafford hopes to tear away that and many more myths to rediscover the