Beethoven's Shadow by Jonathan BissMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I have a wonderful idea! Beethoven's Shadow would make a resourceful, one-of-a-kind audio book! The author could sit at the piano and play excerpts from the Beethoven (and other) musical examples he is making. I own many of the selections Biss mentioned and was driving myself crazy reading, searching for music, listening, re-reading.
Otherwise, Beethoven's Shadow was a research paper....a professional pianist holding forth on a fascinating subject but only to other musical brilliants. I couldn't hear the descriptions of the performances, was not familiar with the pianists Biss was writing about, and thought him to be rather on the dry side himself.
I could overcome my objections, however, had I not spent so much time searching my music library!
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