Volume 50, Number 3 · February 27, 2003
Beethoven the Unruly
By Joseph Kerman
Beethoven: The Music and the Life
by Lewis Lockwood
Norton, 604 pp., $39.95
Lewis Lockwood is a leading musical scholar of the postwar generation, and the leading American authority on Beethoven. He has published influential articles on the composer, some collected previously in Beethoven: Studies in the Creative Process (1992), but no full-length study until now. He has chosen to make his first major statement in the form of a life-and-works study. Beethoven: The Music and the Life is expressly not a work with a thesis, but a magisterial work of consolidation, aligning the author's own contributions with the broader tradition that has constructed the master composer of the Western canon.
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