Today marks the 26th anniversary of the founding of this website, The Unheard Beethoven. The history of this website is a long one: in the mid 1990s, Mark (from Wisconsin USA) and Willem (from the Netherlands) met on mIRC #beethoven chat channel on DALnet, and talked about Beethoven’s works, and …
Today we get a close look at the evolution of a Beethoven composition, with illustrations. Beethoven has spent the last few days proofreading the Stichvorlage, or printer’s copy, of the 25 Scottish Songs, op.108, for Schlesinger. He corrects a number of errors, and on at least one occasion inserts a …
Our review of Jan Swafford’s biography Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph received critical comments from John E. Klapproth. We asked him to write down his critique in an article, which he kindly agreed to do. Klapproth’s main criticism centers around the identity of the Immortal Beloved; he strongly believes that the …
One of the more challenging segments of the recorded Beethoven is the Italian part-songs written 1801-1802 as part of the composer’s studies with Antonio Salieri. The Kinsky-Halm catalogue (KH) and the catalogue of Willy Hess are a confusing mess of entries, often in seemingly random order, and KH in particular …
by Paul Reid Paul Reid is the author of The Beethoven Song Companion (2007), and former Chairman of the Schubert Institute (UK). He also contributed his realisation of Beethoven’s Der Gute Fürst to this website. BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT ©2013, Paul Reid Two of the world’s greatest composers lived in the …