Adam Louis – Mission City Record missioncityrecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from missioncityrecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MUST READS dailymail.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailymail.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
, by Laura Tunbridge (Yale). Focussing on nine pivotal works, this study, equal parts musicological and biographical, complicates the simplistic portrait of Beethoven as an isolated, single-minded genius. Although he seemed inclined to rebellion and irreverence, he still relied upon a close circle of friends and patronsâespecially as he began to lose his hearingâand saw his fortunes as bound up with theirs. His music also testifies to his political awareness. Tunbridge writes that âFidelio,â his only opera, âroots him as a man of his time rather than allowing him to float free of worldly concerns, a transcendent genius.â
, by Seb Falk (Norton). The figure at the heart of this exploration of medieval astronomers, philosophers, and physicians is John of Westwyk, a brilliant fourteenth-century Benedictine monk who created an equatorium, a kind of analog computer for determining the positions of the planets. As John passes in and out of the historical recor
What was really wrong with Beethoven?
While it s widely known that Ludwig van Beethoven suffered hearing loss, few people are aware of how that affected him, what might have caused it, and the fact that he was dealing with a number of other unpleasant ailments – in fact he enlisted a total of 14 physicians to try to help him.
In Radio 3 s Dissecting Beethoven, with the help of a worldwide group of physicians, Georgia Mann and eminent neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reach down 250 years to Beethoven s birth, to try and solve the puzzle of the composer s numerous health problems, and how they affected the man and his music.