On the trail of . . . Beethoven in Heiligenstadt (with audio)

September 11, 2016

Does any composer have more plaques, statues, museums or memorial sites than Ludwig van Beethoven? Top of the list are the 12 museums and memorial sites spread over five countries. Vienna has a quarter of them. The city is also decorated with many of the more shadowy ‘Beethoven lived here’ and ‘site of the dwelling of . […]

2016 | Quartets Series | Tags: Beethoven, Beethovenhaus, deafness, despair, Heiligenstadt Testament, Keith Horner, last will, No. 6 Probusgasse, suicide