Summary: <p>We could just as easily have called this episode, Growing Up Beethoven, or Build-A-Beethoven, or Beethoven: From Boy to Boss, but "actualization" is more accurate. As violist Simone Gramaglia of Quartetto di Cremona explains, like any artist we study in hindsight, Beethoven's creative development has distinct, identifiable periods. Unlike other artists, as he evolved, Beethoven moved increasingly away from rules and conventions, and into something transcendent: a full expression of his own unique creative vision. What I'm trying... <a href="https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2016/04/25/147870/classical-classroom-ep-125-the-actualization-of-beethoven-with-simone-gragmalia/">Read More</a></p>
