Beethoven!" cried the landlord. "What have you done? You can't knock
holes in my walls just because you want a view of the trees!" "I can. I
have and I will," replied the great composer.
The (unfortunately named, it's almost like a Dickensian moniker for the unscrupulous agent of an overworked opera star) documentary film maker Phil Grabsky, who already illuminated Mozart's life, has made a Beethoven documentary that opens next week in the UK at the Barbican, has written a guide to Ludwig Van's Vienna. A Wall Street Journal interview with Mr. Grabsky is here.
