Beethoven and the Age of Revolution
A study of the man and his works in his time
Author
Frida Knight
Publisher
Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1973
Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 206pp.
A study of Beethoven and his work specifically in the context of the social and political events of the very stirring times in which he lived. Frida Knight (1910–1996) was an English communist activist and author. She joined the Left Book Club, the Communist Party and drove an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War. She was in France in 1940 and was arrested after the German invasion. She escaped with author Rosemary Say in 1942 to work with the Free French in London.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition, with a little wear to the wrapper's edges.