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

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 ...

And the insights could provide new windows not only into understanding Beethoven’s chronic health ailments, but the ...

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 ...

“I think Beethoven had a lot of darkness in his life. And I think with this Ninth Symphony, he overcame it.” ...

By STEVE MARTINDALE For SS Film Festival Society The Salt Spring Film Festival’s annual “Best of the Fests” series begins ...

is an excellent addition to the world of research on Beethoven's life and times for both the amateur and the more serious Beethoven scholar. …This book puts so many things into perspective that it ...