The Beethoven Files Podcast

We’ll look at the various components of Beethoven’s reputations and place in history.  

We’ll look at Beethoven’s last great public work, the Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, completed in 1824.

We’ll look at Beethoven’s final three string quartets: No. 13 in B-flat Major, No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, and No. 16 in F Major.

We’ll focus on the first two of Beethoven’s five late string quartets: the String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127, and the String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.

We’ll look at Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas: No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 (1820); No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110 (1822); and No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 (1822).

We’ll focus on the Missa Solemnis, Op. 123, composed between 1819 and 1823.

We’ll focus on two piano sonatas, No. 28 in A Major, Op. 101, composed in 1816, and No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”) completed two years later.

We’ll look at Beethoven’s last two cello sonatas: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1, and Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2.  

We’re going to focus on the song cycle “An die ferne Geliebte,” Op. 98, but also take a quick look at two songs from Beethoven’s settings of Scottish songs from Op. 108.

We’ll focus on Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93.