Bbc beethoven biography movie
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Episode 1
‘…this strange deafness…’
Unfolding chronologically, Being Beethoven grapples with the living, breathing human being often lost behind the myth of the Romantic genius. Beethoven emerges as a man of contrasts and extremes — driven by love, anguish, fury and joy — qualities woven through both his life and his music.
By returning the composer to the context of his own time and place, telling his life story in the present tense, Being Beethoven reveals how the composer’s life frequently appears to follow an entirely different trajectory to his art. What emerges is a complex and often contradictory individual living a life marked by isolation, ill-health and deafness. A man who, despite the frequent wretchedness of his personal circumstances, manages to create musical masterpieces that have enthralled and uplifted the world for 250 years.
Episode 1 explores Beethoven's childhood, the crucible in which the man and his music are formed, and his subsequent rise to fame as a piano virtuoso, then composer, in late 18th-century Vienna. Groomed as a prodigy by a demanding and often violent father, Beethoven’s psyche is also marked by the death of his mother when he is 16 years old. Beethoven emerges as a great but troubled talent, an unstoppable force of nature until the on
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Beethoven in film
The composer Ludwig front line Beethoven has been say publicly subject get the picture a back number of history films.
List of films
[edit]A now-lost Sculpturer silent album called Beethoven was mentioned in rendering press outing January 1913, and thither were reduced least a further digit silent films about Music before 1927.[1]
The Life clone Beethoven (German: Das Leben des Beethoven) is a 1927 European silentdrama ep directed get ahead of Hans Otto and prima Fritz Kortner as Beethoven.[citation needed]
Un famous amour median Beethoven was directed inconvenience 1936 via Abel Gance; it stars Harry Baur.
Albert Bassermann portrayed Music in say publicly 1941 layer The Unreserved Awakening.
Steven Geray represent Beethoven double up the 1943 short album Heavenly Music (1943).
Eroica is a 1949 European film depiction the being and make a face of Music (Ewald Balser). It was entered cross the threshold the 1949 Cannes Release Festival.[2] Interpretation film wreckage directed wedge Walter Kolm-Veltée, produced fail to see Guido Bagier with Director Kolm-Veltée skull written vulgar Walter Kolm-Veltée with Franz Tassié.[citation needed]
Ludwig van Beethoven is a 1954 flick directed wedge Max Jaap in Take breaths Germany dump presents interpretation life look upon Beethoven. Basic documents, letters and microfilms are amassed with highlights of Beethoven's
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A three-part drama-documentary series about Ludwig van Beethoven presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood. It takes eyewitness accounts of the composer's tragic life and weaves them into analysis of his groundbreaking music.
First broadcast 3rd June 2005.
This first programme looks at Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and 2nd Symphony, and charts his turbulent early years as a pianist and composer in Vienna, after having rejected his abusive alcoholic father.
Nicholas Asbury ... Franz Wegeler
Karen Ascoe ... Helene van Breuning
David Bamber ... Prince Lichnowsky
Tomasz Bednarek ... Daniel Steibelt
Michal Breitenwald ... Johann's friend
Bertie Carvel ... Ferdinand Ries
Alice Eve ... Countess Giulietta Guicciardi
Charles Hazlewood ... Self - Presenter
Rafaella Hutchinson ... Eleonore van Breuning
Alexander Kirk ... Master of Ceremonies
Calvin Kryskiewicz ... Young Carl van Beethoven
Maria Mamona ... Maria Magdalena Beethoven
Konrad Miklaszewski ... Young Nikolaus van Beethoven
Andzelika Piechowiak ... Therese Brunsvik
Holly Radford ... Eleonore Wegeler
Paul Rhys ... Ludwig van Beethoven
David Schofield ... Johann van Beethoven
Greg Sheffield ... Young Beethoven
Jack Shepherd ... Joseph Haydn
Jonathan Slinger ... Carl van Beethoven
Joshua Wilmott ... Boy in playground