Born in 1769, German composer Ludwig van Beethoven achieved enormous acclaim within his own lifetime and to this day is widely considered one of the greatest composers to ever live. One of the maestro’s most famous pieces is his Fifth Symphony, the opening of which, with its distinctive ‘short-short-short-long’ motif, has inundated popular culture for more than a hundred years.
Beethoven in fact wrote nine symphonies, all of which are still held in high regard, but few people realise that, at the time of his death in 1827, the completely deaf composer was in the process of writing his tenth. Little is known of what Beethoven ultimately intended for this enigmatic 10th Symphony…read more on TotalTele.com »