Symphony No. 9 was the pinnacle of Beethoven's remarkable career. Boston Public Library/Flickr, CC BY In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven ...
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, listeners will hear the complete Beethoven symphonies as recorded live by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The recordings, still in progress as ...
After 15 years, Green Mountain Mahler Festival’s annual New Year’s Day performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at ...
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The world will be celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday next year, but Chicago got started on Thursday night. Before a large audience in Orchestra Hall, with even the terrace seating behind the stage ...
Monika Vischer and biographer Jan Swafford explore Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. Monika Vischer and biographer Jan Swafford explore Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. The Beethoven 9 as we explore the ...
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music. By the time of its 1824 premier, the composer was completely deaf. At the end of ...
The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...
When Chuck Berry first sang “Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!” in 1956, he was trumpeting the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and, perhaps, forecasting the decline of classical music. Sixty-four ...
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, ...
Fred Child and Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Christoph Eschenbach discuss the diametrically opposed messages Beethoven wrote into the final movements of his Ninth Symphony. A universal expression ...
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