Ludwig was partial to an alcoholic beverage too. Laura Tunbridge, author of the biography Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, notes that his doctors did recommended that he cut back, “which is ...

Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven. has long been recognized as the classic biography of Beethoven. "Thayer, with his calm and logical mind, scrupulous, magnanimous and spacious...had set ...

John Suchet’s new biography, In Search of Beethoven, lands somewhere in the middle of these two categories, wavering between ...

Indeed, during the entirety of the performance, he was on stage, his back to the audience, as described by Maynard Solomon in ...

Barenboim's performances of Beethoven's Sonatas became legendary and he was one of the first musicians in the modern era to revive the idea of performing Mozart’s piano concertos without a conductor, ...