CLASSICAL
BEHIND THE STUDIED CHAOS, BEETHOVEN WAS TRYING TO TEACH US ABOUT LIFE
Beethoven never owned a suit. While he was getting dressed to conduct the premiere of the ninth symphony, friends found he didn’t have a conducting jacket and had to rustle around for one that fitted his ungainly frame.
Beethoven was careless of his appearance and reckless in his public conduct. Staggering home one night from a Viennese tavern, he was picked up by a police patrol and
