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OverviewWho was Beethoven's 'Immortal Beloved'? After Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, a love letter in his writing was discovered, addressed only to his ‘Immortal Beloved’. Decades later, Countess Therese Brunsvik claims to have been the composer’s lost love. Yet is she concealing a tragic secret? Who is the one person who deserves to know the truth? Becoming Beethoven’s pupils in 1799, Therese and her sister Josephine followed his struggles against the onset of deafness, Viennese society’s flamboyance, privilege and hypocrisy and the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. While Therese sought liberation, Josephine found the odds stacked against even the most unquenchable of passions... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica DuchenPublisher: Unbound Imprint: Unbound ISBN: 9781789651157ISBN 10: 1789651158 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 29 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews'Beautifully crafted and painstakingly researched, Immortal offers a winning blend of historical rigour and free-wheeling imagination.' BBC Music Magazine 'Deeply knowledgable, emanating from a profound understanding ... this new book brings the human, vulnerable side of Beethoven into focus for our twenty-first-century audience' Marin Alsop 'Dazzlingly-rendered ... pulls you into a vanished world and an utterly compelling love story - at its centre, one of music's greatest and most enduring mysteries. Few authors understand better than Jessica Duchen the way music can change the course of a life; and few writers make that music leap more vividly off the page' Richard Bratby 'Beautifully crafted and painstakingly researched, Immortal offers a winning blend of historical rigour and free-wheeling imagination.' BBC Music Magazine Author InformationJessica Duchen writes for and about music, encompassing fiction, biography, journalism, plays, narrated concerts and opera librettos (notably Roxanna Panufnik’s Silver Birch at Garsington Opera, 2017). She was classical music correspondent for the Independent from 2004 to 2016 and has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Observer and BBC Music Magazine. Her biographies of the composers Gabriel Fauré and Erich Wolfgang Korngold have met with wide acclaim and her novel Ghost Variations ( 2016) was chosen by John Suchet in the Daily Mail as his Best Read of 2016. Jessica was born in London and studied music at Cambridge. She lives in London with her violinist husband. @jessicaduchen Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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