Currently browsing category

Essay

Happy 26th anniversary!

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 …

In Defence Of Josephine

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 …

BEETHOVEN AND SCHUBERT

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 …