Beethoven Retained Some Hearing Later In Life, Heard His Final Symphony; Used 'Conversation Books'

[appalachiablue]

2. I'm looking forward to learning what Ludwig & friends were

discussing in his later years, 1818-1827 based on publication of the materials.

Aren't you lucky.

> Albrecht is now editing the “conversation book” accounts and translating them from German into English for the first time, a mammoth publishing project that will eventually comprise 12 volumes.

British company Boydell & Brewer will publish volume 3 of Beethoven’s Conversation Books in May (£45), following the publication of some of the new research in an article entitled “The Hearing Beethoven”, in The Beethoven Journal this month and (in German) by the Vienna Oboe Journal in March.