The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
by Sachs, Harvey
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 140006077X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060771
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 2010. 225 pages, illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. "An analysis of Beethoven's seminal Ninth Symphony identifies it as a key cultural event that reflected major social upheavals, including the emergence of a dynamic Western world and changes in philosophical perspectives on individuality." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
Harvey Sachs is a writer and music historian and the author or co-author of eight previous books, of which there have been more than fifty editions in fifteen languages. He has written for The New Yorker and many other publications, has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and is currently on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He lives in New York City.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
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- 119685
- Title
- The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824
- Author
- Sachs, Harvey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 140006077X
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060771
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Movements / Romanticism; European / German, Austrian & Swiss; Genre & Subject / Music;
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