Beethoven

<p>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 <em>Forbes</em></p><p>This is not just criticism but poetry in itself with the additional--and inestimable--merit of being true. -- <em>Washington Post Book World</em> </p><p>Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris (<em>The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Rex Dutch</em>) is one of America's most distinguished biographers known for his rich compulsively readable prose style. His biography of Beethoven one of the most admired composers in the history of music is above all a study of genius in action of one of the few giants of Western culture. <em>Beethoven</em> is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins' Eminent Lives series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures. </p>