Well, I finished reading the Schlosser biography. It was short and quite inaccurate, but also very amusing.
Schlosser starts out by saying that the proceeds to the biography will go to make a monument in memory of Haydn (it was never built, interestingly). He invites people to make additional contributions if they wish.
He then says that it is not his fault that this biography is not as good as the one he wrote on Mozart, because if Beethoven had traveled more and mixed more with society, he would have been more interesting to read about.
In summary, this biography had more banal banter and drawn-out anecdotes than anything else, and most of it wasn't about Beethoven anyway. I still enjoyed it, though, and after having read several large tomes on Beethoven, a short biography was a nice change.
Schlosser starts out by saying that the proceeds to the biography will go to make a monument in memory of Haydn (it was never built, interestingly). He invites people to make additional contributions if they wish.
He then says that it is not his fault that this biography is not as good as the one he wrote on Mozart, because if Beethoven had traveled more and mixed more with society, he would have been more interesting to read about.
In summary, this biography had more banal banter and drawn-out anecdotes than anything else, and most of it wasn't about Beethoven anyway. I still enjoyed it, though, and after having read several large tomes on Beethoven, a short biography was a nice change.
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