Everyone knows the opening bars of the Fifth Symphony, but how many know the story of its writer, Ludwig van Beethoven, arguably the greatest composer of all time? How could a man deaf for nearly all his adult life write the 'Eroica' Symphony, the Fifth, the 'Pastoral' Symphony, the 'Emperor' Concerto, the 'Moonlight' Sonata and Fidelio?
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Narrator | John Hunter |
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Length | 24hrs |
Catalogue No. | 4881 |
Publisher | Little, Brown Publishers |