JOHN SUCHET: 
IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN

WITH PETROC TRELAWNY

6pm, 16th November at The Poly​​ 

Join celebrated  broadcaster and bestselling author John Suchet as he talks to Petroc Trelawny about In Search of Beethoven, his latest and most personal book dedicated to the life of this extraordinary composer. 

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Part biography, part memoir, part travelogue, Suchet draws on his life and career as a foreign correspondent and news anchor to show how Beethoven’s music has accompanied him through the best and worst of times. It was with him as an adventurous teenager, as a journalist entering Beirut in the grip of civil war, and as he has continued to explore the old cities of Bonn and Vienna, in search of the man behind the music.

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In a compelling and intimate conversation Suchet will be tracing  Beethoven’s footsteps from his early years in Bonn to his dying days in Vienna as he uses his own experience as a Beethoven aficionado to demonstrate the life-changing power of great music.

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"Wavering between portraying a genius and an all-too-fallible human being... it’s as much about Suchet’s obsession as it is about Beethoven himself...He’s especially good at conveying his own self-identification with his subject. Fascinating" The Telegraph  ★★★★

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