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Matthew Guerrieri is a music critic for The Boston Globe, and his articles have also appeared in Vanity Fair, NewMusicBox, Playbill, and Slate. He is responsible for the popular classical music blog Soho the Dog (sohothedog.blogspot.com). He lives in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.
Music critic Matthew Guerrieri reaches back before Beethoven’s time to examine... Read more >
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
A unique and revelatory book of music history that examines in great depth what is perhaps the best-known and most-popular symphony ever written and its four-note opening, which has fascinated musicians, historians, and philosophers for the last two hundred years.
Music critic Matthew Guerrieri reaches back before Beethoven’s time to examine... Read more >
The First Four Notes
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $13.99
Read more >
Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination
Written by Matthew Guerrieri
Format: eBook, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $13.99
Read more >
