On Ludwig Von Beethoven with Jan Swafford

Join professor Jan Swafford as he peels away layers of Beethoven’s legend to get to the living, breathing human being who composed some of the world’s most iconic music.

From the revolutionary ferment of Enlightenment-era Bonn, where Beethoven grew up, to Vienna, where Beethoven built his career, his surroundings shaped his work, as did his struggles with depression and deafness.