Beethoven was an inspired composer but he was also a working musician with sound commercial sense. David Wyn Jones's account of Beethoven the man and composer reveals the life of a creative musician ...

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

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

Filmed in Austria for the hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's death, this 1927 silent film tells the story of the German genius' eventful emotional life. Presented in a restored version and with ...

The book description for the previously published "Thayer's Life of Beethoven" is not yet available. Alexander Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven. has long been recognized as the classic biography of ...

Starting at the end, Georgia and Henry look at the report of Beethoven's post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim ...

Documentary series that tells the life story of Beethoven in the context of the composer's own time and place, revealing a life following a very different trajectory to his art.

An original study of the history of the symphony in Vienna during Beethoven's lifetime, this 2006 book explores the context in which the composer worked. Based on an extensive study of the wider ...

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 ...