The Beethoven Obsession
Ward, Brendan
Tells 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 contraband to advance his studies, an 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 l...