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Mr Beethoven Paul Griffiths

Name: Mr Beethoven Paul Griffiths
SKU: BELL-52388350
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (82 reviews)

SKU: BELL-52388350

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

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Mr Beethoven Paul Griffiths instant download after payment.

Publisher: New York Review Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 1.88 MB

Author: Paul Griffiths

ISBN: 9781681375809, 9781681375816, 168137580X, 1681375818

Language: English

Year: 2021

Product desciption

Mr Beethoven Paul Griffiths by Paul Griffiths 9781681375809, 9781681375816, 168137580X, 1681375818 instant download after payment.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize
Based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratorio based on the Book of Job.
It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffiths’s ingenious novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee its first performance.
Griffiths grants the composer a few extra years of life and, starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man.
Relying entirely on historically attested possibilities to develop the plot, Griffiths shows Beethoven learning a form of sign language, struggling...