🎼 Leonard Bernstein Meets Beethoven — with Maximilian Schell In 1982, Leonard Bernstein and actor Maximilian Schell joined forces for Bernstein/Beethoven, an 11-part television series filmed in Vienna. Across its episodes, Bernstein conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in all nine symphonies while Schell narrated, reading from Beethoven’s letters and reflections. Bernstein explored Beethoven’s lifelong “struggle for inevitability” — the idea that his music sounds effortless only after years of pai