"Tenth paperback printing, for the first time in two volumes, 1991"--Title page verso.
" So Van Wyck Brooks described this monumental work of the 1880's. Thayer talked with Beethoven's surviving friends, gathered anecdotes, and sifted hundreds of documents.
The book description for the previously published "Thayer's Life of Beethoven" is not yet available.
PRAISE FOR JAN SWAFFORD CHARLES IVES: A Life in Music A sensitive, specific, gracefully worded, and remarkably clearheaded book that is both an engrossing biography . . . and a detailed examination of the work [Ives] left behind.
Thayer's Life of Beethoven. Revised and Edited by Elliot Forbes
“Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage—or should one say, duet—of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates.” — Christopher Buckley, Forbes “This is not just criticism but poetry ...