Beethoven

First published in 1927 J. W. N. Sullivan's “Beethoven - His Spiritual Development” explores the subject of Beethoven's spirituality which the author believes he expressed through his greatest musical compositions. Contents include: “Art and Reality” “Music as Isolated” “Music as Expression” “Beethoven’s Characteristics” “The Morality of Power” “The Mind of Beethoven” “The Hero” “The End of a Period” “Love and Money” “The Hammerclavier Sonata” “God the Companion” etc. A fascinating study of Beethoven's work not to be missed by fans of classical music. John William Navin Sullivan (1886–1937) was a popular literary journalist and science writer who wrote some of the first accounts of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity for the laymen. Sullivan was acquainted with a number of important writers in 1920s London including T. S. Eliot Aldous Huxley and Aleister Crowley. Read & Co. Books is republishing this classic work now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.