The Beethoven Obsession
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The Beethoven Obsession

  1. 291 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Beethoven Obsession

About this book

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

  1. Front Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue
  7. 1. Bodgies, Widgies …and Beethoven
  8. 2. A very grand grand piano
  9. 3. Destination Australie
  10. 4. Run by Yamaha,taught by Suzuki
  11. 5. Hawking condoms and contraband
  12. 6. ‘Not Fit for Overseas Service’
  13. 7. Bureaucracy and the cultural cringe
  14. 8. Rallying behind the renegade
  15. 9. Out of tune at the Opera House
  16. 10. The man who invented Beethoven
  17. 11. The big, goofy guy
  18. 12. ‘Oh no … fuckin’ old repertoire!’
  19. 13. Recording Beethoven the Australian way
  20. 14. From the sublime to the profane
  21. 15. Beethoven has the last word
  22. 16. ‘Thirteen down, only nineteen to go’
  23. 17. Bucking the Steinway trend
  24. 18. Beethoven’s greatest challenge
  25. 19. Beethoven tops the sales charts
  26. 20. ‘A high note of pure gold’
  27. 21. Into the war zone
  28. 22. The impact of one tiny note
  29. 23. Orchestral manoeuvring
  30. 24. Revealing the piano’s full set of teeth
  31. 25. Unfinished business
  32. 26. Diabolical Diabelli
  33. 27. Variations on the make-up of a genius
  34. 28. Steinway’s marketing muscle
  35. 29. A perfect match
  36. Epilogue: Reconstructing Beethoven
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. Notes