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Diagnosing Genius:
The Life and Death of Beethoven
By François Martin Mai
"A remarkably concentrated biography deals smartly with his social relations, the women in his life, his conflicts with relatives and servants and the famously enervating custody battle over his nephew."
Arthur Kaptainis, The Gazette
In Diagnosing Genius, psychiatrist and physician François Martin Mai explores the relationship between health and creativity in the life of one of the greatest composers of all time, Ludwig Van Beethoven. Examining Beethoven's struggle with physical and mental illness, including deafness and depression, Mai highlights the composer’s extraordinary ability to transcend these troubles to go on and compose some of the most powerful and beautiful music in Western culture.
This Friday, Mai will be at the Sheraton Hotel in Ottawa, at 150 Albert Street, for the newest Arts Café: Love, Rage, and Altered States: the Mind in Austrian Music. There, he and virtuoso pianist Justin Kolb will be pairing their knowledge and their art to address the question of mind and music in the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and others. Doors for the show open at 6, and the concert starts at 7, with no cost of entry. The event is sponsored by the Austrian Embassy.
Mai has also been invited to give a keynote presentation, titled “The Psychology of Beethoven’s Creativity”, at the American Beethoven Society’s biennial Convention, from July 9-11th, in San Jose, California. You can find the program for the conference here.
You can find our earlier posts on Francois Mai here and here.
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