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1) Beethoven lives upstairs

Author

Nichol, Barbara

Series

Classical kids

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Audiobook on CD, Book - Regular Print, Child - Picture Book

Description

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The letters that ten-year-old Christoph and his uncle exchange show how Christoph's feelings for Mr. Beethoven, the eccentric boarder that shares his house, change from anger and embarrassment to compassion and admiration.

2) Immortal beloved

Publisher

Columbia TriStar Home Video

Pub. Date

c2000

Language

English

Description

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Mystery based on the search for the identity of the one great love of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.

3) Beethoven

Series

Animated hero classics

Publisher

NEST Family Entertainment

Pub. Date

c2005

Language

English

Formats

Book - Regular Print, DVD Video, Kit

Description

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Animated biography of Beethoven.

4) Ludwig Van Beethoven

Author

Venezia, Mike

Series

Getting to know the world's greatest composers

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

1996

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Briefly recounts the life of a composer who wrote beautiful sonatas and symphonies despite tragic personal problems.

5) Copying Beethoven

Publisher

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

Description

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When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.

6) Weingartner on music & conducting : three essays

Author

Weingartner, Felix

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

cop. 1969

Language

English

7) Beethoven: the universal composer

Author

Morris, Edmund

Series

Eminent lives

Publisher

Atlas Books/HarperCollins

Pub. Date

c2005

Language

English

8) The life and works of Beethoven

Author

Siepmann, Jeremy

Series

Classic literature with classical music

Publisher

Naxos AudioBooks

Pub. Date

p2001

Language

English

Description

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This "portrait-in-sound" combines actors' readings with Beethoven's music.

9) Lives of the great composers, book 1

Author

Woodward, Ian

Series

A Ladybird book volume 662
History of the arts volume 662

Language

English

10) Beethoven: anguish and triumph : a biography

Author

Swafford, Jan

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2014.

Language

English

Description

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Jan Swafford's biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world's most iconic music. Swafford mines sources never before used in English-language biographies to reanimate the revolutionary ferment...

11) The heroic symphony

Author

Celenza, Anna Harwell

Publisher

Charlesbridge

Pub. Date

c2004

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Child - Picture Book, Kit

Description

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After learning that he is going deaf, Beethoven is determined to write a great symphony using the heroic deeds of Napoleon as his initial inspiration.

12) Beethoven lives upstairs

Publisher

Children's Group

Pub. Date

c2002

Language

English

Description

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At first, ten-year-old Christoph resents the eccentric boarder who enters his home, but slowly he comes to understand the torment of Ludwig van Beethoven's deafness, and appreciate his genius and the beauty of his music.