Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No.
Documentary series that tells the life story of Beethoven in the context of the composer's own time and place, revealing a life following a very different trajectory to his art.
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login In 1796 the young Beethoven presented his first two cello sonatas, Op. 5, at the court of Frederick William II, an avid cellist and the ...
Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly, writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about the ...
Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, this documentary series focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer. Groomed for greatness by an ...
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Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated each of these concertos almost as symphonies, so closely did they engage ...