Books by David Wyn (University of Wales College of Cardiff) Jones

This account of Beethoven reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It describes his early years as a court musician, his public career as a pianist-composer and his difficult relationships with patrons and musical institutions of the day.

David Wyn Jones provides a fascinating account of this popular work and the context in which it was written.