Title: easy read yet at sophisticated level
Review: For some reason I thought this biography was going to be for young adults. It is not. It is a highly sophisticated book both in terms of its subject and his music. Yet at the same time it managed to be an easy, enjoyable page-turner showing warts and all. I had not realized how very insane Beethoven became as his deafness and personal life worsened -- and yet it was then that, apparently, he most cleanly broke through convention to achieve revolutionary masterpieces. Made me think of Van Gogh -- and the whole idea of insanity melded with brilliance.
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