John Sheldon's photos with the keyword: Beethoven

In the streets of Castellammare di Stabia, Italy.

"This music crept by me upon the waters" (The Tempest, by Shakespeare); or, rather, I ignorantly passed over the Schumann Fantasia for many decades before recently coming to love it. I heard this recording of Richter at Abbey Road Studios in online quality and decided I must have a real CD copy: even if I had to get it from Japan! I would happily have this CD as my grave goods. The CD also includes The Tempest Sonata by Beethoven. In another life I played that Sonata to a panel of senior professors at the RAM in London. They are all dead now, so it is too late for me to apologise.

'Et in Arcadia Ego' (And in Heaven I am).

This hardback book containing all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in clear, crisp typeface, was purchased in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, in 1934. It was a gift for someone - no price is shown but just 5 years after the Wall Street crash, this must have been a very expensive present.

Small bust of Ludwig van Beethoven.

DNG heavily manipulated in processing software.

The composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) regularly drank red wine at the Kameel. According to an 1820 order slip hand-written by Beethoven, he had the Kameel deliver to his house: two and a half litres of Austrian white wine, fine and regular sugar and the very best coffee… – without which, he said, he was not able to compose.