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 ...

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

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