Beethoven seen through his music: A series of eight talks
Tod Benjamin
- Regions:
- Wiltshire, Dorset, Hampshire
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Ex Rotary president and retired international company chairman.
- Fee:
- Free
- Category:
- Humanities
- Updated:
- 23rd June 2026
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Beethoven's life is followed closely, with appropriate musical excerpts from his compositions. Each talk deals with a different period of his life:
- The painful childhood. 2. The Virtuoso Part One. 3. The Virtuoso Part Two. 4. The Composer.
- The Late Period Begins. 6. The last Sonatas. 7. The Great Flood. 8. The Climactic Quartets.
About Tod Benjamin
After a business life during which I delivered many talks to Rotary Clubs while travelling across the world to establish my chemical company, i retired to a life as an author and poet.
In 2017, I was invited to read from a prize-winning memoir at the West Cork Literary Festival .
A recently completed project is a Life of Ludwig van Beethoven with relevant musical interludes from his works. The result is a series of eight presentations, each of between one and two hours, ideal for any music club or group of like-minded people.
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