Beethoven composed his Romance No. 2 in 1803 and the sweet, innocent melodies belie the altogether more tumultuous events of the composer’s personal life at the time. Beethoven's ability to create ...

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth has somewhat fallen off the cultural radar owing to the pandemic, though a few of the musicians streaming online concerts from their music rooms have focused ...

LONDON — A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby’s auctioneers said. Sotheby’s described the manuscript, discovered in a ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner revisits two of his favourite Beethoven symphonies. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 6 October 2014. October 2014 marks the silver anniversary of the Orchestre Revolutionnaire ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. "Poignant, proud, beautiful, complicated, crazy, monumental..." Just some of the words Australian ...

Sometimes, when fielding audience questions after screenings of “In Search of Beethoven,” Phil Grabsky lets it slip that an early cut of his 2009 documentary stretched to 11 1/2 hours long. “People ...

Feb 14, 2020 - Feb 15, 2020 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Add to Calendar 14-02-2020 19:30 15-02-2020 21:30 America/Toronto Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra – Beethoven This Valentine’s Day special launches The ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. His music was heavily influenced by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn. A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra. In ...

Mozart's Band. E06 (Part 2) - Beethoven's let down: Just as the real Beethoven had an intense admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, whom he considered a great revolutionary idealist and liberator of all ...