John Suchet
Wednesday 19th February 2025
Beethoven has been John Suchet’s abiding passion throughout his life. Now the author, journalist, radio and tv presenter has produced a part biography, part memoir and part travelogue describing how Beethoven has travelled with him throughout the ups and downs of a life as a foreign correspondent and as an afficionado of the troubled composer’s remarkable life and music.
John Suchet OBE was the voice of morning radio on Classic FM for almost a decade and before that was one of the UK’s best known television journalists and newscasters presenting ITN’s News at Ten for nearly 20 years. A recognised authority on Beethoven, he is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Beethoven: The Man Revealed as well as biographies of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi and Tchaikovsky.
In Search of Beethoven
"This is a wonderful tale of self-realisation, of what we can gain from turning to genius in life's many crises.". NORMAN LEBRECHT
In Search of Beethoven sees the composer brought vividly and sometimes painfully to life. From his early years in Bonn to his dying days in Vienna, Suchet uses his own life experiences not least as a journalist entering Beirut in the midst of civil war to demonstrate the life-changing power of great music.
