Episode 2

This episode sees Beethoven return to the town of Heiligenstadt, where the year before, devastated by the loss of his hearing, he had written the Heiligenstadt Testament; a document in which he contemplates suicide before finally resolving to embark on a new creative path. The works that he produces during this period - from the earth-shattering Eroica through to his Seventh Symphony - amount to one of the most extraordinary outpourings of creativity in the history of music.