"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 in itself, with the
additional--and inestimable--merit of being true." -- Washington Post
Book World
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris (The Rise of Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Dutch) 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. Beethoven is another engaging entry in the
HarperCollins' "Eminent Lives" series of biographies by distinguished
authors on canonical figures.