Beethoven, Master Musician (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Madeleine Goss
- First Published: 1931
- Time of Work: 1770–1827
- Setting: Bonn, Germany, and Vienna, Austria
- Principal Characters: Ludwig van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, Jan, Carl, Karl van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Stephan von Breuning, Anton Schindler
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Music or musicians, Alienation, Genius, Eighteenth century, Pianos or pianists, Composers, Biography, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons
- Locales: Vienna, Austria, Bonn, Germany
Form and Content
Beethoven, Master Musician is an imaginative re-creation of Ludwig van Beethoven’s life in narrative form. Though highly fictionalized, the biography does incorporate the general facts of Beethoven’s life as they are known from his letters and diaries, as well as from other biographies. The author, Madeleine Goss, uses historical material as the basis for her story, but she also reinvents a number of conversations that either did occur or may well have occurred. She quotes directly from many of Beethoven’s own letters; these passages, in...
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