Lee, Dongwon Meredith, William and Lebwohl, Benjamin 2023. Alcohol and the death of Ludwig van Beethoven: comparison of general biographies to the medical literature. Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift ...

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

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 ...

The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and ...