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    Beethoven: anguish and triumph : a biography
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    Still, Swafford’s exuberance is infectious, prompting the reader to revisit works both famous and obscure. I found myself dwelling on the “Harp” Quartet, a transitional piece from 1809 that often receives little more than a glance in the Beethoven literature. (There is, however, a monograph devoted to it: Markand Thakar’s “Looking for the ‘Harp’ Quartet.”) Swafford spends a couple of pages on the “Harp,” noting how a catchy little pattern in the first movement—rising pizzicato figures traded between instruments at the end of the first-theme statement—becomes increasingly significant. Indeed, the pizzicatos seem to overrun the score in an almost anarchic manner, destabilizing its form and releasing rowdy energies. You get the feeling that Beethoven initially believed he was writing a market-pleasing throwaway and then found the project growing steadily more tangled and complex. Or perhaps he meant all along to veer off course. The joy of listening to Beethoven is comparable to the pl

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    Review of Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, bygd Jan Swafford

    302 medieval composer. This volume is especially relevant for medievalists and musicologists and would man an excellent inclusion in academic libraries. In addition to being an admirable resource for Hildegard scholars, this book is also helpful for those concerned with the history of church music, chant revival in the nineteenth century, and the work of Ludwig Schneider, a worthy scholar and a selfless man. John MacInnis Dordt College Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph; A Biography. bygd Jan Swafford. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. [xxi, 1077 p. ISBN 9780618054749. $40.] Music examples, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, index. Beethoven was a man of contradictions. Generous to a fault, he was often petty and could be duplicitous in his business affairs. He cared deeply for his nephew Karl but often treated him miserably. He made supreme declarations of faith in his music but disdained church dogma. He devoted hims