Ludwig was partial to an alcoholic beverage too. Laura Tunbridge, author of the biography Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, notes that his doctors did recommended that he cut back, “which is ...

Inspecting Beethoven's ear trumpets at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, with Dr Erica Buurman.

John Suchet’s new biography, In Search of Beethoven, lands somewhere in the middle of these two categories, wavering between ...