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Beethoven
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- ISBN 9781742233956
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 302g
- Dimensions: 132 x 205mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2013
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Beethoven Obsession is the story of how the greatest piano music ever written acquired a unique Australian voice, played on a revolutionary grand piano. It is a fast-paced drama of frustration, envy, rivalry, struggle and success, starring a self-taught child prodigy who sold condoms and contraband to advance his studies; a fanatical inventor who took apart pianos as a child to examine their ‘gizzards’; and a TV cameraman who became a music entrepreneur to translate the music he loved into an Australian first.
Their unorthodox, historic odyssey created multi-award-winning, best-selling albums and changed their lives forever.
Their unorthodox, historic odyssey created multi-award-winning, best-selling albums and changed their lives forever.
Brendan Ward spent much of his working life in the film and television industry – first as a cinematographer in regional television, then on Mike Willesee’s A Current Affair and 60 Minutes, and finally as a producer of TV shows and documentaries.
