Beethoven’s music is for all time and all styles ... are only just the beginning – upwards of 40 charting pop songs, from the Bee Gees’ 1966 Spicks and Specks through the Moody Blues ...

For his audience he made Beethoven all-sufficient—with the clarity of his phrasing, the prismatic shading of his tone color, the way in the second, slow movement he carried on a dialog with the ...