Ludwig Van Beethoven Life and Works

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, both vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No mans music is more universal, few mens lives are more inspiring. In every sense but onehis modest heighthe was a giant.