{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Ludwig van Beethoven: Making a Man","description":"Donald Macleod looks for clues in Beethoven’s early life that point towards the great man he would become.\n\nAll through 2020, Donald Macleod takes an unprecedented deep dive into the compelling story and extraordinary music of Ludwig van Beethoven. In this uniquely ambitious series, told across 125 episodes of Composer of the Week, Donald puts us inside Beethoven’s world and explores his hopes, struggles and perseverance in all the colourful detail this amazing narrative deserves. Alongside this in-depth biography, Donald will also be meeting and talking to Beethoven enthusiasts and experts from across the world to discover how his music continues to speak to us in the 21st century. Through story and sound, the series builds into a vivid new portrait of this composer, born 250 years ago this year, who made art that changed how people saw themselves and understood the world.\n\nThis week, Donald looks at Beethoven’s humble beginnings as a child born into a family of court musicians, working for the Archbishop-Elector’s retinue in Bonn, Germany. He showed musical talent early and followed his father and grandfather into the Elector’s employ as soon as he reached his teens. Would he continue to follow the family pattern and retire there too?\n\n\nMusic featured:\nPiano Sonata No 24 in F# major, Op 78 (2nd movement)\nFugue in D for organ, WoO 31\nSymphony No 6 (movts. IV & V)\nViolin Sonata Op 30 No 2 (2nd movement)\nString Quartet Op 18 No 4 (1st and 3rd movements)\nString Quartet No 13 in Bb, Op 130 (2nd movement)\nPiano Sonata No 2, Op 2 No 2 (1st and 2nd movements)\nSymphony No 4 (4th movement)\nSonata for cello and piano, Op 102 No 1 (2nd and 3rd movements)\nPiano Quartet, WoO 36 No 3\nPiano Sonata No 19, Op 49 No 1 (2nd movement)\nPiano Trio, WoO 38 (arr. Alec Frank-Gemmill)\nDer Mann von Wort, Op 99 \n24 Variations on \"Venni Amore\" by Righini, WoO 65\nPiano Trio, Op 70 No 2 (3rd and 4th movements)\nString Quartet, Op 95 (Serioso) (1st movement)\nFidelio: Act I (finale)\nMusik zu einem Ritterballett, Woo 1\n12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes' by Handel for cello and piano, WoO 45\nRondo a capriccio in G major (Rage over a lost penny) for piano, Op 129\n7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46\nResignation, WoO 149 \nString Quartet, Op 59 No 1 (1st movement)\nViolin Concerto (2nd and 3rd movements)\n\n\nPresented by Donald Macleod\nProduced by Chris Taylor for BBC Wales\n\nFor full tracklistings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Beethoven Unleashed: Making a Man\nhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dpzm \n\nAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z","author_name":"BBC Radio 3"}