Ludwig van Beethoven · 1818 Spin it Again - Beethoven wrote this in 1818 like a man who had stopped caring whether the piano could actually handle it, and it cannot, and that is entirely the point.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1826 Spin it Again - Beethoven's last completed quartet, written months before he died, and he still had the nerve to ask *Muss es sein?* over a four-note motif like the answer was going to surprise him.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1825 Spin it Again - Beethoven wrote this while recovering from a near-fatal illness in 1825, and you can hear every hour of that convalescence in the slow movement he literally titled a thanksgiving to God.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1827 Spin it Again - Seven movements played without pause, written by a man who couldn't hear a note of it, and somehow that's the least remarkable thing about it.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1803 Spin it Again - Beethoven in 1803, still thirty-two years old, writing a funeral march forty minutes in like he already knew how the century was going to go.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1824 Spin it Again - Beethoven was completely deaf when he wrote it, and you can hear exactly what that does to a man who still had something left to say.

Beethoven · 1808 Spin it Again - Four notes, two hundred years, and it still sounds like someone kicking in a door.