Beethoven composed several concertos during his teens – the piano score of a complete concerto in E flat dating from 1784 is the only one to have survived. But it is the five piano concertos he wrote ...

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The mad genius, the belligerent loner, the deaf visionary. Beethoven's mythical persona tends to be lurid and larger than life, fuelled by generations of dodgy Hollywood biopics and musicological ...