Beethoven Variations : Poems on a Life
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 142688642
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- ISBN
- 9781784742515
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This biographical sequence of poems, followed by a brief prose biography, is the result of lifetime playing music and five years research whose primary sources were Beethoven’s music, letters, journals, marginalia to musical sketchbooks and conversation books he used when deaf; her secondary sources were two centuries of Beethoven scholarship and recent biographies. It offers a vision of Beethoven's inner world that proves exemplary as the poet also considers her own life as a viola player and singer. Original insights include seeing his little-known trombone quartets, written just after his letter to the ‘Immortal Beloved,’ as a threnody for love.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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