A year before the end of his extraordinarily productive life, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a brief, existential question on the score of the final movement of his last completed major work: “Muss es ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Biography and memoir news every morning. It is an irony that so little of Beethoven’s music is being played this year. Coronavirus ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The “Fantasy Proms” — that is how it has officially been dubbed, though nobody would have conjured up this ...