A portrait of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven in 1818. 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its ...

Beethoven still had to prove himself as a composer and decided to quit the Lichnowsky residence in favour of a rented apartment which he could now afford thanks to the money he was making from his ...

He’s an internationally in-demand pianist, a composer himself, and a very busy recording artist. He makes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor Concerto,” sound as fresh as a new work. You ...

This is the last day I’ll be filling in for Emily, and it’s been so much fun! Today we’ll hear how Beethoven was an early ...

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The Beethoven notebooks have at last been made public in entirety by Walter Nohl of Munich. They have been the most cherished possession of the Music Department of the State Library at Berlin.

A hunt was on in New York last week for the kind of chair Beethoven used when he played the piano. It had to have short, strong legs to suit a heavy, stumpy little man like Beethoven, a comfortable ...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is arguably the most popular and celebrated piece of classical music ever written. Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin once declared that "Everything will pass, and the world ...

As another classical music season gets underway, we — players, listeners and promoters — should consider the treasure of deep ...