by Romain Rolland · 岩波書店 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9784003255629
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«ベートーヴェンの生涯» (Bētōven no shōgai) is the biography of Beethoven by Romain Rolland, published by Iwanami Shoten in paperback (200 pages, in Japanese).
Romain Rolland, who from a young age turned Beethoven's music into support in his own struggles, traces in this work a portrait of the composer as an example of resistance and idealism. The book follows Beethoven's life from his origins to his death, relying on letters, diaries and testimonies, and includes musical fragments.
Original title: Vie de Beethoven (1903). Japanese translation by Katayama Toshihiko (片山敏彦). Belongs to the Iwanami Bunko collection, no. 赤 556-2.
For those interested in biographies of composers and in the figure of Beethoven, with edition in Japanese.
Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915 "as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings".
