The greatness of Beethoven cast a long shadow. It was Brahms whose First Symphony was long delayed by the intensity with which the composer felt “the tramp of such a giant behind you”. And the shadow ...

String Quartet No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Endellion Quartet String Quartet No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven ...

String Quartet No. 3 Jerusalem Quartet Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer String Quartet No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Jerusalem Quartet String Quartet No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer ...

Germany’s Auryn Quartet, whose recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets were called “the set to beat” by a reviewer for Gramophone, returns to Bates College to finish its three-year survey ...

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...