The Fourth Symphony provided the listening public relief after the monumental 'Eroica' Symphony, and most popular Fifth Symphony. The Eighth Symphony follows the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies, ...

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 ...

This June the NZ Symphony Orchestra takes on all nine Beethoven symphonies, in order, providing an opportunity to hear the composer's entire symphonic output. Over four days (Wellington June 12-15, ...

This year marks the 250th birthday of one of the most revered composers who ever lived: Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770. Beethoven wrote hundreds of piano sonatas, ...

For this weekend’s concerts by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, music director Stéphane Denève chose Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto with, for vivid contrast, Carlos ...

A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

For today's listener who knows all of Beethoven's symphonies, it takes some historical imagination to appreciate how his contemporaries successively received these new works and how the composer ...

Decades of research have been poured into every musical and instrumental aspect of the “Historically Informed Performance” (HIP) of classical music: From the way the continuo bands of the time ...