It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...

A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven certainly had his fair share of tough days, serving as the primary bread winner for his family starting at just 10 years old and having gone deaf during the prime of his life, ...

LONDON – A page of Beethoven’s handwritten notes for his Sixth Symphony sold for a record price of $296,800 at an auction Friday. The so-called sketch leaf from the Pastoral Symphony was the first ...

For today's listener, who knows all of Beethoven's symphonies, it takes some historical imagination to appreciate how his contemporaries successively received these new works and how the composer ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven certainly had his fair share of tough days, serving as the primary breadwinner for his family starting at just 10 years old and having gone deaf during the prime of his life, ...