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Beethoven is celebrated biographer and composer Jan Swafford's fascinating celebration of one of classical music's all-time great composers.

About the Author

Jan Swafford (born 1946) is a writer and broadcaster, and the award-winning author of biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, as well as the Vintage Guide to Classical Music. He is also a composer, and teaches composition, theory and music history at The Boston Conservatory. He studied at Harvard and the Yale School of Music.