At the time of writing the “Waldstein,” Beethoven had just received a piano from the Parisian piano-maker Érard. This piano ...

Manitowoc Symphony marks its 75th anniversary with a nine-year Beethoven cycle starting April 11, plus Bruch and PetSkull ...

The increasing deafness that Beethoven suffered during the closing years of his life gives the masterpieces that he wrote in that period, like the late String Quartets, a mystical aura, especially for ...

Alexander Pashkov, a Russian pianist, and Adolfo Ramos, a celebrated cellist, will perform a duet that highlights works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff. The program includes Beethoven's Sonata ...

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra should know all there is to know about Beethoven's nine symphonies. For a start, they're one of the oldest orchestras in the world, and even more importantly, they ...

Must he stay or should he leave? Wilhelm Furtwangler, who many consider the greatest conductor ever, agonised over a decision on which he felt much depended. After seizing power in 1933, the Nazis had ...

If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Whether or not music stirs inside, each of us bears a living metronome at our core. It may tick at 40 or 100 beats per minute, in three-quarter time or in six-eight, erratically or like a Swiss clock.

Performances in N.Y.C. Beethoven at 250 The conductor John Eliot Gardiner talks about a life listening to and performing the world’s most-played symphonies. John Eliot Gardiner rehearsing Beethoven’s ...

Classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven suffered hearing loss, leading to his complete deafness. Yet he was still able to compose masterpieces of music. Here’s how.... “For the last three years my ...