Edward Dusinberre's illuminating account of life as the Tackas Quartet's first violinist and the challenge of performing Beethoven's extraordinary music. Tim McMullan reads.
Five guests join Donald Macleod to discuss elements that defined the spirit of Beethoven's age - the economy, the wider world of the arts, engineering, medicine and belief.
Yet music scholarship has traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before the era of the Strauss dynasty, with the exception of a handful of dances by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
Beethoven suffered from liver disease - possibly ... in 1770 and died at the age of 56 in Vienna, in 1827. The prodigious composer and pianist suffered progressive hearing loss, which began ...
The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and ...