David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician in Bonn and Vienna in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While paying due regard to ...

author of the biography Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, notes that his doctors did recommended that he cut back, “which is actually quite unusual for the early 19th century because people are ...

On March 27, 1827, the day after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, his associates uncovered a hidden trove of documents in his ...

Beethoven suffered from liver disease - possibly ... composer's "conversation books" - which he used in the last decade of his life - that Beethoven's alcohol intake was regular, but the volumes ...