Composer of the Week: Beethoven: At Home

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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

Kate Molleson

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

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Donald Macleod examines some of Beethoven's everyday objects and household artefacts.

Today, Donald Macleod and Erica Buurman examine Beethoven’s cut-throat razor, leading to a discussion of the composer’s domestic circumstances.

Donald Macleod visits Beethoven’s birthplace with Erica Buurman where they find a cut-throat Razor owned by the composer and talk about his domestic circumstances.

This week, Donald Macleod takes us to Beethoven’s home town of Bonn and the Beethoven-Haus museum, which now occupies the building where he was born. Donald is joined by Erica Buurman, director of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, and together they explore some of the everyday objects and household artefacts owned by the composer to see what they can tell us about how he lived. 

Composer of the Week will be returning to the story of Beethoven’s life and music throughout 2020. Part of Radio 3’s Beethoven Unleashed season marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

Sonata No 29 in Bb, Op 106 ‘Hammerklavier’ (mvt 1 Allegro)
Stephen Kovacevich, piano

Aus Goethes Faust, Op 75, No 3 
Roderick Williams, baritone
Iain Burnside, piano

Symphony No 6 (mvt 3)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Simon Rattle, conductor

String Quintet in Eb Op 4 (mvt 1 Allegro con brio & 2 Andante)
Endellion Quartet

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Composer of the Week: Beethoven Unleashed: At Home

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Donald Macleod continues his survey of the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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