Book recommendations – Popular Beethoven

Beethoven: The String Quartets – a book review

David Vernon’s ‘Beethoven: The String Quartets’

David Vernon: Beethoven: The String Quartets As a long time Churchill fan I always find wisdom and encouragement in his sayings. One can easily discover answers in these compact one liners to almost any situation in life. No wonder, when reading David Vernon’s new book, a quote came to me: I like a man who grins when he fights. I …

A Beethoven biography book recommendation Jan Swafford’s biography of Beethoven is not ‘just another book’ on the great master. He manages to be as complete as possible without being too academic or ruining the intimate tone of the book. The author covers a historical period of a lifetime including the Enlightenment, the Napoleonic wars, the peace treaty followed by, and …