Beethoven A Character Study Together With Wagner's Indebtedness To Beethoven

Beethoven A Character Study Together with Wagner's Indebtedness to Beethoven explores the personality and biography of the well-known German musician Ludwig van Beethoven. Fischer's study which was published in 1880 attempts to offer readers a better understanding of Beethoven's character creative disposition and the influence of his masterpieces on the music industry. The book delves deeply into Beethoven's impact on musicians of all kinds especially Richard Wagner in addition to examining his biography. In his analysis of Wagner's debt to Beethoven Fischer highlights how the composer's inventive and ground-breaking approach to music had a lasting influence on Wagner's compositions and ideas. Fischer probably goes into detail on the composer's hardships such as his hearing loss which started in his late 20s and how he surmounted hardship to write a number of the most famous and cutting-edge pieces in the history of classical music.