I know nothing that is greater than the Appassionata; I would like to listen to it every day. It is marvellous, superhuman music. I always think with pride – perhaps it is naïve of me – what marvellous things humans can do. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to Maxim Gorky Read The Tempest. Ludwig van Beethoven, when … Continue reading Echoes of Fate: Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata →