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The Beethoven Obsession
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A fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, this work tells the story of the intertwined lives of four people: Ludwig von Beethoven; a concert pianist who was a self-taught child prodigy; a fanatical inventor who disassembled pianos as a child; and a television cameraman who became a music entrepreneur in order to translate the music he loved into the first recording of Beethoven's music captured wholly on an Australian grand piano. This unorthodox and historic odyssey makes for an ideal read for anyone with an interest in classical music or the culture of Australia.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. Bodgies, Widgies …and Beethoven
- 2. A very grand grand piano
- 3. Destination Australie
- 4. Run by Yamaha,taught by Suzuki
- 5. Hawking condoms and contraband
- 6. ‘Not Fit for Overseas Service’
- 7. Bureaucracy and the cultural cringe
- 8. Rallying behind the renegade
- 9. Out of tune at the Opera House
- 10. The man who invented Beethoven
- 11. The big, goofy guy
- 12. ‘Oh no … fuckin’ old repertoire!’
- 13. Recording Beethoven the Australian way
- 14. From the sublime to the profane
- 15. Beethoven has the last word
- 16. ‘Thirteen down, only nineteen to go’
- 17. Bucking the Steinway trend
- 18. Beethoven’s greatest challenge
- 19. Beethoven tops the sales charts
- 20. ‘A high note of pure gold’
- 21. Into the war zone
- 22. The impact of one tiny note
- 23. Orchestral manoeuvring
- 24. Revealing the piano’s full set of teeth
- 25. Unfinished business
- 26. Diabolical Diabelli
- 27. Variations on the make-up of a genius
- 28. Steinway’s marketing muscle
- 29. A perfect match
- Epilogue: Reconstructing Beethoven
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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