Starting at the end, Georgia and Henry look at the report of Beethoven's post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim ...

So wrote Beethoven from the Austrian spa town of Baden to his piano pupil Ferdinand Ries on 24 July 1804. His brother secured a lodging for him in the village of Döbling just north of Vienna and ...