Ludwig van Beethoven

CC found solace and took immense pleasure in music throughout her life. She attended many concerts and heard pretty well every great instrumental and vocal soloist of my time in one place or another (from...

In Berlin, May von Arnim-Schlagenthin first encountered the works of Goethe and also of Bettina von Arnim . The latter was a literary and family forebear of her husband, a poet and an associate...

According to RP 's website, her Padel great-great-grandfather (called elsewhere her great-grandfather)was a concert pianist in Leipzig who studied under a pupil of Beethoven and became a founder member of...

The narrative voice (a Scottish one, apparently as a kind of joke) is complex and shifting, with irony fed by unstable reference to the central couple (now Muriel and Henry, now Mother and Father, and...

Spring Sonata is said during its course to mimic the dialogic structure of Beethoven 's musical composition of the same name.BR 's story continues her exploration of grotesque or marginal characters: its protagonist...

In The Sweet Dove DiedBP deals with male homosexual relationships in connection with problems experienced by single women in their fifties. The name of the central character, Leonora Eyre, suggests Beethoven 's Leonora overtures...

FRH could play much of Handel , Beethoven , and Mendelssohn from memory, and her powers as a solo singer were very much in request in the Philharmonic Society at Kidderminster. She lived...

While in Oxford, JB , along with three of her husband's colleagues, formed a string quartet to study and perform the music of Haydn , Mozart , and Beethoven .

At Salzburg in 1879 MCC heard Hans Richter conducting the Vienna Orchestra (now the Vienna Philharmonic), and thought him the best conductor she had ever heard, superior even to Mendelssohn. In London in 1881...

Although her life was a quiet one, she did not want for occupation: she was a talented musician and composer, although she grew dissatisfied with her singing, and gave it up later in life. According...

An interview with Deevy, conducted during the dress rehearsal, likened her creative vanquishing of her disability to that of Beethoven . The Irish Times reported that the play reflected an almost imperceptible change in...

Blanche's widowed mother was back in England in July 1862 to make a home for her children, particularly her daughters. She settled her family in a well-appointed manor house in Dorset in the west of...

The subject of voice appears in a more darkly humorous aspect in The Child, wherein the woman narrator finds a baby mysteriously present in her shopping cart. The baby proceeds to spout all manner...

NG 's style in her next volume of stories, Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black, impressed reviewers with her continuing brilliance in composition.

Her contributors included Ali Smith on Beethoven 's Fidelio, Anne Enright on Dvorak 's Rusalka, Jackie Kay on Janacek 's The Makropulos Case, Joanna Trollope on Donizetti 's L'Elisir d'Amore, Kate Atkinson