Did Beethoven’s love for married aristocrat and a doomed son colour his darkest work?

British music scholar claims composer’s sorrow at separation inspired masterpieces including his ninth symphonyTowards the end of his life, in the depths of introspective melancholy, Ludwig van Beethoven created some of the world’s most intensely emotional music. The ninth symphony, the Missa Solemnis and some of his greatest piano sonatas are works that still communicate a uniquely concentrated darkness of thought. Now a British Beethoven scholar believes she can explain the German