Despite these tensions, the fourteen-year-old Beethoven continued to write music, increasingly influenced by Mozart. With the court orchestra of some thirty players at his disposal, he began ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.” By Anthony ...