On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the ...

Composer Steve Hackman incorporated 15 Beyoncé hits into Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. His goal is to introduce new audiences to classical music and offer a fresh perspective for seasoned symphonygoers.

My recent encounter with Beethoven in Bangkok unexpectedly raised a question that concerns all of us: how do we deal with ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is set to begin its first-ever Beethoven Festival Thursday night. The festival will run for two weeks and feature four performances of ...

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.

Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra, joined by soloists Camilla Tilling, Kelley O’Connor, Issachah Savage and Ryan McKinny on June 1 at the Kennedy Center. (Scott Suchman) ...

In the spring of 1825, Ludwig van Beethoven was struck by a gut ailment so severe that he thought he might die. That summer, after he recovered, he returned to the string quartet he’d been writing ...

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 ...

Ordinarily, if you encounter the name "Strauss" at a classical concert, it's likely to be Johann or Richard -- not Levi. But for the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's first-in-awhile "Beethoven & Blue ...