Beethoven lands in Berlin, rants about his tenth symphony

Beethoven lands in Berlin, rants about his tenth symphony

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norman lebrecht

December 08, 2021

Playwright Moritz Rinke’s new work ‘A man who called himself Beethoven’ finds the composer landing in the ruins of Karajan’s Philharmonie, where he launches a diatribe against the data people who tried to complete his abandoned tenth symphony.

But he falls in love with a viola player and turns to writing heavy metal.

Just another night in German theatre.

Review here.

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