Beethoven contado a través de sus contemporáneos

From the first anecdotes of his childhood to the funeral prayer that the playwright Franz Grillparzer wrote on the occasion of his death, this book compiles a wide selection of testimonies about Beethoven written by his direct contemporaries, those who treated him and knew him in his day. a day. Some of the most illustrious figures of culture and history from the 18th and 19th centuries (Mozart, Goethe, Rossini, Listz ...) parade through its pages, offering a mosaic of letters, diaries and memories that together form a vivid portrait of the great German composer. The play of light and shadow produced by the disparate judgments of each of them results in a kaleidoscopic image that changes and evolves on each page to provide a complete perspective of its complexities and folds, of its artistic genius, but also of its everyday life, bringing the Bonn Master closer to Spanish-speaking readers on the two hundred and fifty years since his birth. Well, as Grillparzer says in his funeral prayer: "He was an artist, but he was also a man."