Beethoven

Beethoven was only three when his grandfather died, yet the old man’s dark face and flashing eye left an impression that lasted a lifetime. Why did this court musician, remembered in a scarlet robe, matter so much to the boy?

Elliott Graeme’s late-nineteenth-century memoir begins with the family’s roots in Belgium and follows its fortunes to Bonn, a small German court where music flourished under the Electors of Cologne. There, Ludwig van Beethoven was born into a modest household, with a father determined to make a prodigy of him. Rigorous training would shape the boy’s first steps in music—but could it also kindle a talent no discipline could contain?

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