A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

It is the artistic human-interest story to end them all. The most famous "Classical" composer spent the better part of his late composing period almost completely deaf, in the process completing a ...

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman from Chicago hopes to break down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds. It hasn’t been easy.

A previous performance from Elschenbroich and Grynyuk at the Fidelio Cafe, with its mover and shaker Raffaello Morales as the pageturnerAll images by Matthew Johnson Part of the charm and the ...