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 ...

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

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 ...

The composer would outlive his doctor by nearly two decades, yet close to two centuries after Beethoven's death a team of ...

Beethoven around 1804-5. Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler There may have an element of that, but the unhelpful practices of public concert life in Vienna ... Snow had arrived early that ...

Very early Beethoven was influenced by Haydn ... Those early days in Vienna were the happiest in my life. I had more commissions than I could fill. I gave lessons to beautiful young countesses.

Early biographers vied to honour him ... For those who prefer a life of Beethoven unencumbered by the author’s “personal ...

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 ...