Certain pieces of classical music have legions of fans far beyond the concert hall. Richard Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” has been in many movies, from “Apocalypse Now” to “The Blues Brothers.” If ...

With even his stern face and wild artist's hair as iconic as his music, it’s not easy to remember that Ludwig van Beethoven was once a struggling up-and-comer. But at the end of the 18 th century and ...

Beethoven’s salary was soon adjusted in line with Neefe’s, creating tensions between the master and his teenage pupil. Despite these tensions, the fourteen-year-old Beethoven continued to write music, ...

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Any list of the all-time best classical recordings would have to include the urgent, sinuous performances of Beethoven's fifth and seventh... Beethoven's Best: The Ultimate 5th Symphony Beethoven's ...

To go even further back in time, the earliest I can remember of the project is myself, pacing around an hotel room in Seoul in very early 2019, burning with the excitement of a new idea; that brief ...

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 ...

The timing was unfortunate for Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday celebration. Commemorations of the fêted composer came in 2020 (scholars’ best guess at his birthday is 1770), just as the world ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is the only non-Mexican composer on the program for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra’s “Beethoven & Blue Jeans” concerts this weekend at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Performance ...