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The documentary film, In Search of
Beethoven, brings together some of the world's leading
performers and experts on Beethoven to reveal new insights
into this legendary composer. Director Phil Grabsky documents
each piece of music chronologically marrying it to Beethoven’s
biography and letters. He will meet the audience to talk about his film and answer any questions before the screening.
“Gripping” Wall St Journal
“A hit...so terrific I wept'" Mail on Sunday (UK)
"highly entertaining and informative
an extraordinary collection of musicians, conductors and musicologists”
Time Out, London
“Superb…The film will give those who already know about Beethoven enormous pleasure, and provide any receptive 12-year-old with an ideal introduction to the man and his music”
The Telegraph (UK)
“The film's real resource is its impressive array of talking heads, their intimate familiarity with the music,
and their ability to impart graspable insight”
Village Voice, New York
“An endearingly human biography….
every bit as wonderful as In Search of Mozart.”
Chicago Tribune
‘beautifully lensed and intelligently crafted’
Variety
“Expertise and passion combined......
high-class”
New York Times
“One of the finest movies about a great musician I've ever seen”
The Observer (UK)
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