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Beethoven: Annus Horribilis

Beethoven shouldered his fair share of emotional vicissitudes over a lifetime, but his last twelve months were among the most trying of all. Clive Paget looks at the triumphs and the tragedies of the composer’s final year, while Brett Dean reflects on two of his own works that have been inspired by Beethoven’s complicated states of mind.

February 27, 2020