Once in a while a film comes out to rescue a classic art form from its highbrow captors. I had an epiphany when I was flipping through the TV channels as a young teen and caught a battle scene from ...

Immortal Beloved is no Amadeus. Released a decade after Milos Forman’s operatic, Best Picture-winning biopic of Mozart, the comparisons of that instant classic to writer-director Bernard Rose’s ...

The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Besides all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved, and the movie tries to find out who ...

I’ve been reflecting on the doomed romance between Beethoven and his mysterious Immortal Beloved. In 1957, passionate letters between him and Josephine Brunsvik were discovered that made some believe ...

It all began when I was asked to speak about “Beethoven and Women” in a string quartet festival a number of years ago. I started reading and couldn’t stop. The love story I found hidden amid the many ...

While Beethoven poured his heart into a host of emotionally tortured compositions, "he did so just twice through the medium of written words." Readers of Walden’s first effort who are not themselves ...

Helmer Agnieszka Holland's "Copying Beethoven" joins 1994's "Immortal Beloved" in the ranks of mediocre dramatic interpretations of Beethoven's biography. Best bet for distribs is pitch to middle-aged ...

“I can only live, either altogether with you or not at all.” Beethoven wrote these words to a woman he addressed only as his “Immortal Beloved” in the summer of 1812. A copy of the letter was found ...

That the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra titled its latest program “Immortal Beloved” is enough to tell you it’s all about Beethoven. The phrase refers to a mystery lover Beethoven wrote to shortly ...

Breaking news to your phone. US mobile only. No password required. Broadway + NYC Broadway Off-Broadway Off-Off Broadway Cabaret Dance Opera Classical Music West End / UK Broadway veteran James ...