Ludwig van Beethoven was a prodigious composer. He’s credited with 722 individual works, including symphonies, sonatas, and choral music — creations that pushed the boundaries of composition and ...
Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...