Name: Being Beethoven
Released: 2020-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Music

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770 is a documentary series that focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer.

2020 · 59m

Director Phil Cairney

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Groomed for greatness by an often abusive father, Beethoven emerges as a great but difficult talent; the onset of deafness tears his world apart.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Beethoven embarks on a new creative path and attempts to find love; but the composer's life appears to be following a very different trajectory to his art.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

As Beethoven embarks on the flowering of the late music, his health deteriorates and his desire for love and family tips over into obsession.