John Suchet: In Search of Beethoven

The music of Beethoven was with John Suchet as a music-loving and adventurous teenager, as a journalist entering Beirut in the grip of civil war, and as he has travelled to Bonn and Vienna to visit the buildings in which John lived and worked. In this novel and compelling book, we see Beethoven brought vividly – and sometimes painfully – to life, with comprehensive coverage of new and ground-breaking research into the ongoing mysteries surrounding Beethoven’s health and ancestry, including the as yet unexplained cause of his deafness.  

John traces Beethoven’s footsteps from his early years in Bonn to his dying days in Vienna, taking us on a journey both literal and symbolic, to demonstrate the life-changing power of great music.