Stefan RomanoBorn in Romania during WWII and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1989, Stefan Romanó is neither a musician nor a musicologist. He is an engineer by formation, a man of exactitude and clear and logical thinking, qualities that served him thoroughly when hebecame an amateur Beethoven scholar. A long-time member of American Beethoven Society and of its French counterpart, he has published in their professional journals, bringing valuable contributions to understanding Beethoven's life and creation. His Ending the Fifth article answered a question that had puzzled musicians, scholars and music lovers alike for two hundred years - why does Beethoven's Fifth Symphony end with that apparently interminable series of C major chords? He took the pen for his Beethoven at 250: Man and Music Under Siege by force of circumstance, when he discovered that no professional authority had reacted to the relentless and groundless attacks that postmodern scholarship has waged against Beethoven for over half a century. Read More Read Less