The Life and Works of Beethoven written by Jeremy Siepmann performed by Jeremy Siepmann on Audio CD (Abridged)

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all, heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer.

No man's music is more universal; few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one - his modest height - he was a giant.