Introduction
Wild, Untamed, Arresting, Yearning, Tortured, Passionate
Beethoven, It Should Be Said, Was No Mozart
It Was Probably Waldstein Who, in the Following Months
Notwithstanding His Simmering Resentment Towards Haydn
Eight Months After the Charity Concert
The Next Few Years Witnessed Multiple Performances
Less Than Two Years Later
Unfortunately for Beethoven, the Sorrowful Mood
Beethoven’s Productivity Continued on His Return to Vienna
Wrapped Up with the Complicated Genesis
During This Period of Creative Inspiration
Before the Mega-Concert Took Place
Searching for Popular Acclaim at Home in Vienna
Beethoven Interrupted Work on the Archduke’s Mass
Beethoven Now Turned His Attention to a Work
After Completion of the Ninth Symphony
If Beethoven’s Life Was a Hollywood Blockbuster