Elliot Forbes (1917–2006) was the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University, renowned as a Beethoven scholar.

"A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written... Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography."--The New York Times

Elliot Forbes (1917–2006) was the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University, renowned as a Beethoven scholar.

"A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written... Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography."--The New York Times

Elliot Forbes (1917–2006) was the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University, renowned as a Beethoven scholar.

"A model of objective biography, one that is amazingly modern and as valuable today as when it was written... Thayer's Life remains the definitive biography."--The New York Times