THE English or American reader, whose only biography of Beethoven has been the translation of Schindler’s work by Moscheles, will be pleased to find scattered through Marx’s two volumes a number of ...

Swafford, who is also a composer, wrote Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, a 1000-page biography of Beethoven that scrubs some of the myth off the composer. The book shows Beethoven as a fairly regular ...

At the beginning of 2020, I resolved to ignore, as far as possible, celebrations of the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, which fell last month. The uncontested ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we celebrate the life of Beethoven and the lasting powers of his music in the 250 years since his birth. Let's Celebrate Beethoven's 250th When we say "all ...

But it is not endless discussions of Beethoven’s works which the public — at all events, our public — demands. We wish his biography,— the history of his life. What has been given us does but whet the ...