"With it I have given all I could give. What I did, I could not achieve again." And he never did. French composer (and organist) Camille Saint-Saëns said that about his Symphony No. 3, called the ...
Beethoven began to write his longest and final Piano Concerto while Napoleon was bombarding Vienna in 1809; a situation Beethoven described as “nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts.” ...