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Mozart
The very very best books of 2020 (2020-12-18)

Jan Swafford, Mozart: the Reign of Love .  Self-recommending.  A wonderful biographer covers one of the most important humans, to produce the best Mozart biography of all time.  You may recall I also had high praise for Swafford’s Beethoven biography from 2014.

Beethoven
Best non-fiction books of 2014 (2014-11-24)

Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph .  As good or better than the classic biographies of the composer.

What I’ve been reading (2014-10-22)

5. Jan Swafford, Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph .  A consistently excellent and engaging treatment of a figure you cannot read too many books about.  It does not seem like a book of 1000+ pages.  The funny thing is, this book does not come close to exhausting Beethoven, in fact it barely scratches the surface.  It’s as good as the classic Maynard Solomon biography.

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