GOETHE AND BEETHOVEN—Remain Rolland—Harper ($5). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Ludwig van Beethoven were contemporaries, but it was long before they met, not long before they parted.

Composer Brigitta Muntendorf and dramaturge Moritz Lobeck created the audio-visual installation “Covered Culture,” commissioned by the Goethe-Institut. In an interview with “The Latest at Goethe”, ...

He was not alone with this in the classical music tradition. As part of The other Beethoven(s), the Goethe-Institut now focused on this genuinely European, often colonialist view of other cultures – ...

Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain explore the great German Romantic poetry which inspired Beethoven throughout his life from Schiller's Ode to Joy to Goethe's Egmont and ...