The Beethoven Obsession
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4.4 • 10 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
With over 90 minutes of audio and video material and a rich array of photographs of the main players, the enhanced eBook of Brendan Ward’s The Beethoven Obsession tells the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano that shook up the conservative music establishment. Listen to the maestro’s music as you read this fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, starring a self-taught child prodigy who sold condoms and contraband to advance his studies; a fanatical inventor who took apart pianos as a child to examine their ‘gizzards’; and a TV cameraman who became a music entrepreneur to translate the music he loved into an Australian first.
Their unorthodox, historic odyssey created multi-award-winning, best-selling albums and changed their lives forever.
Customer Reviews
A good journey
Reading this along with the audio was so enjoyable, highly recommended.
Awesome read
A friend recommended this to me as a way of getting to know more about classical music, especially Beethoven. She was right. Being able to click on words to hear and see what the author is talking about was great. I wish more people put out books about music like this! It was also a really interesting story about the arts in Australia and the politics of it all. Thank you for the lack of jargon! Loved it.
Brilliant!
An absolute must for every classical music lover. Particularly in combination with the Gerard Willems recordings on the Australian Stuart & Sons piano, this book gives you the insight to this outstanding and utterly unique undertaking that Willems and producer and author Brendan Ward have achieved.
A truly wonderful project!