Season 3, Episode 6
There are approximately one bajillion biographies of Beethoven: do we need really another one? In fact, we do, because Laura Tunbridge has written an engrossing, provocative, and genuinely fresh book about Beethoven’s life and times. A conversation about what it means to write about one of the most well-trodden composers in music history, and the rich new perspectives that Dr. Tunbridge brings to our understanding of Beethoven.
Laura Tunbridge is Professor of Music and Henfrey Fellow and Tutor at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.
If you’re interested in learning more about Professor Tunbridge’s scholarship, follow her on Twitter and check out:
- The 2020 book Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
- The 2018 book Singing in the Age of Anxiety: Lieder Performance in New York and London between the World Wars
- A chapter on Beethoven in interwar Britain in the The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Middlebrow
Sound Expertise is hosted by Will Robin (@seatedovation), and produced by D. Edward Davis (@warmsilence). Please subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and/or Spotify. Questions or comments? Email soundexpertise00 @ gmail
A written transcript of this episode is available here; many thanks to Andrew Dell’Antonio for volunteering to prepare transcripts for the show!
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