On 6 October 1802 Ludwig van Beethoven confessed his despair at the loss of his hearing in the Heiligenstadt Testament.

He’s officially Australia’s favourite composer, but as he began to go deaf, Beethoven thought about ending it all before most of his greatest masterpieces were ever completed, as Martin Buzacott ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In 1802, at the age of 32, Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers Carl and Johann. It was never sent, ...

Saratoga Shakespeare Company tomorrow night will premiere the audio performance of Testament, a portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven in a moment of crisis: grappling with the loss of his hearing, and ...

BEETHOVEN’S Heiligenstadt Testament details the composer’s distress at his increasing hearing loss. The Australian String Quartet opened their concert with a reading of excerpts from the letter, ...

It was quite a profound transition for a young Ludwig van Beethoven to go from being a celebrated virtuoso pianist not long after he arrived in Vienna from Bonn, Germany, in 1792, to feeling ...

On August 22, Saratoga Shakespeare Company (SSC) will premiere the audio performance of Testament, written by Damian Lanigan and co-produced with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in ...