ATELIER SPECIAL: IN LUDWIG'S ROOM -- Atelier Specials feature original creative content including essays, fiction, and excerpts. Today: In honor of the 250th birth-year of Ludwig Van Beethoven, M. Allen Cunningham's account of a visit to Beethoven's rooms in Vienna, a mere two centuries after the composer steps out. Mentioned in this episode: Vienna; University of Vienna; the Ringstrasse; Vienna ramparts; the Votivkirche; Beethoven's 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th symphonies; Beethoven's Rasumowsky Quartets; Beethoven's opera "Fidelio"; office workers; dreamers; ghosts; work and time; what we give our attention to.

Music: Beethoven! (and "Hands of Time" by Narrow Skies, used courtesy of the artist through a licensing agreement with Artlist).