Beethoven around 1804-5. Portrait by Joseph Willibrord Mähler There may have an element of that, but the unhelpful practices of public concert life in Vienna at the time – familiar enough to ...

German composer Beethoven died in 1827 ... rather than the famous Joseph Karl Stieler portrait, or any other recognizable portrait of the composer, the image accompanying his name is made by ...

One stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness. Bedridden since the previous Christmas, he was attacked by jaundice, his limbs ...