132 String Quartet, written two years before his death. That his illnesses caused Beethoven torment is undeniable. In a letter to his brothers, he wrote: “Oh you men who think or say that I am ...

The composer would outlive his doctor by nearly two decades, yet close to two centuries after Beethoven's death a team of ...

death and re-birth of the seasons. It's music that folds us into the wider spirals of creation, and for as long as it lasts, Beethoven’s inner world and the outer world mirror one another in a f ...

Charles Grodin, an American actor whose comic roles in films such as Midnight Run and Beethoven brought smiles ... told the newspaper his cause of death was bone marrow cancer.