Beethoven’s salary was soon adjusted in line with Neefe’s, creating tensions between the master and his teenage pupil. Despite these tensions, the fourteen-year-old Beethoven continued to write music, ...

In 1779, a composer, writer, teacher, and dreamer named Christian Neefe arrived in Bonn, Germany, to work for the Electoral Court. Neefe (pronounced nay-fuh) was the definition of what Germans call a ...