pBrilliant....This book is a perfect marriage--or should one say, duet--of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates. -- Christopher Buckley, emForbesemppThis is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional--and inestimable--merit of being true. -- emWashington Post Book Worldem ppPulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris emThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Dutchem is one of America's most distinguished biographers, known for his rich, compulsively readable prose style. His biography of Beethoven, one of the most admired composers in the history of music, is above all a study of genius in action, of one of the few giants of Western culture. emBeethovenem is another engaging entry in the HarperCollins' Eminent Lives series of biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures. p--Publishers Weekly