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Lädt ... Beethoven's Hair: An Extraordinary Historical Odyssey and a Scientific Mystery Solved (Original 2000; 2001. Auflage)von Russell Martin (Autor)
Werk-InformationenBeethovens Locke: Eine wahre Geschichte von Russell Martin (2000)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. While the basic information about Beethoven, his life, his music, and his hair is fairly interesting, the author indulges in a style derived from the breathless faux-suspense of the tv expose-artists (think Geraldo Rivera and Al Capone's Tomb), thus reducing what could have been a useful monograph into a padded and ultimately boring docu-drama. I'm a musician, and I love Beethoven. But I also love good writing. There are enough facts on record regarding the author's subject--and he knows this; he's included them in the book--to avoid having to make any wild suppositions about the lives of his real-life characters. It's bothering me no end. I'm also irritated by the complete lack of chronology here. It's a non-fiction book purporting to follow the life of a lock of hair; I don't mind a bit of jumping around, but I find myself irritated when within just one chapter, we're bouncing from an event at the end of the year, back to the middle of the year, leading into an explanation of the event that started the chapter. Actually, I rescind that. In some books, that works quite well. It's just that this author has trouble with his transitions, and it all seems like a disjointed mess.
Das Ganze klingt an sich gar nicht mal unspannend, ist aber von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite katastrophal umgesetzt. Martin hat ein Buch irgendwo zwischen Sachbuch und Kitschroman geschaffen. Und würde es schon durch die Kriterien jedes einzelnen Genres durchfallen, so ist die Melange noch viel unausstehlicher. Auszeichnungen
Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bank vault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second World War. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. Who gave him the hair, and why? And what was the fate of those refugees, holed up in the attic of Gilleleje's church? After Fremming's death, his daughter assumed ownership of the lock, and eventually consigned it for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara, purchased it in 1994. Subsequently, they and others instituted a series of complex forensic tests in the hope of finding the probable causes of the composer's chronically bad health, his deafness, and the final demise that Ferdinand Hiller had witnessed all those years ago. The results, revealed for the first time here, are startling, and are the most compelling explanation yet offered for why one of the foremost musicians the world has ever known was forced to spend much of his life in silence. In Beethoven's Hair, Russell Martin has created a rich historical treasure hunt, an Indiana Jones-like tale of false leads, amazing breakthroughs, and incredible revelations. This unique and fascinating book is a moving testament to the power of music, the lure of relics, the heroism of the Resistance movement, and the brilliance of molecular science. An astonishing tale of one lock of hair and its amazing travels--from nineteenth-century Vienna to twenty-first-century America. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The journey this hair made, the personal recollections that Hiller brings to Beethoven's demeanor and character, are just extraordinary. I grew up with a father who was in awe of Beethoven's ability and majesty, and that certainly rubbed off on me. I had forgotten how long it took the French musical community, my beloved French Romantics, to embrace his music as acceptable.
If one is a fan of whodunits, of what a detective does on the streets, even if you're not musically inclined, I would highly recommend this book. Or someone who is interested in the Holocaust; there is a bit of unknown history woven into the story of this lock of hair.
And of course, those of us who love Beethoven and his music will refer to it many, many times.. ( )