Episode 5 – Musical Youth

John tells more stories of Beethoven’s youth, including the childhood pranks he engaged in, and his unusually musical response to being caught stealing eggs from a henhouse. John will also reveal why Beethoven became a piano teacher at the age of 13, and as well as playing part of one of his best-known piano sonatas, he discovers a Violin Concerto that Beethoven wrote as a teenager, of which only a fragment survives. All the Beethoven pieces featured in this podcast are taken from the 90-disc Naxos box set, the Complete Beethoven Edition. You can buy yours by heading to Presto Classical and Europadisc.