Comments by contemporaries depict the composer's music and personality and accompany selections from his letters to friends and other artists

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A complete new edition of Beethoven's conversation books, now translated into English in their entirety for the first time, covering a period associated with the revolutionary style of what we call late Beethoven.

Published in 1909, this two-volume collection of Beethoven's letters in English translation contains more than a thousand examples.