But this bold, iconoclast who broke free of musical reigns was smart enough to wait his turn to write a symphony. He moved to Vienna in 1792 to stake his musical ground, but Haydn and Mozart ...

(CBS 11) - I have had a love affair with classical music since 1965 when I started taking piano lessons in Dallas as a kid. From 1965-1972, I had anywhere between one and two lessons per week and came ...

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In this week's Feature Album, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra present us with the first three symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven on ABC Classic. Thrilling live performances of ...

For more than a dozen years, Gustav Highstein, the Richmond Symphony’s principal oboist, has been a mainstay of the orchestra. For openers — literally — he plays the A to which the rest of the ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Beethoven & American Masters Festival begins with concerts on January ...

Although the Fifth Symphony is considered one of Beethoven's greatest musical works, at the time of its premiere the composer's contemporaries were still smitten with his Third Symphony (the "Eroica") ...

The Seventh Symphony's premiere concert was performed to benefit the soldiers wounded a few months earlier in the battle of Hanau. It was one of Beethoven's most successful concerts. Viennese ...

The London Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven’s 1st Symphony at the Barbican, with conductor Thomas Ades. In a series of “Half Six Fix” concerts at the Barbican, aiming to perform short, easily ...