Laura Tunbridge Pieces Together Beethoven’s Life

One Symphony with Devin Patrick Hughes

Author and scholar Laura Tunbridge and conductor Devin Patrick Hughes discuss the historical Beethoven in rehearsals, as the entrepreneur, the conductor, the early adopter of technologies, the family man, his controversial metronome markings, and the authenticity behind historically informed performance practice. Tunbridge is a Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, UK and the author of books about Robert Schumann, art-song, and Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, and is currently working on a book about string quartets.

The book is Laura Tunbridge’s Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces, published by Yale University Press. Thank you Laura for sharing your amazing passion and wealth of knowledge about Beethoven’s life and music. Thank you to all record labels and performers that made this episode possible, musical excerpts came from Fidelio, the Third Sonata for Cello and Piano, the Choral Fantasy, Symphonies Three and Seven and the Piano Trio in C minor, performed by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic, Angela Denoke, Jon Villars, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Cleveland Orchestra, Andre Previn and the Royal Philharmonic, Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier, Wilhelm Kempff, Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and Sony Classical.

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