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 ...

Don’t miss your chance to hear one of the most iconic pieces of music of all time: Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. You have four chances: Thursday, March 19 (7:30 pm), Friday, March 20 (7:30 pm), Saturday ...

Members of the Beethoven Choruses celebrated 100 years of singing and “gemutlichkeit” last night by hosting a concert covering their rich musical heritage. The concert was held in the Beethoven ...

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...

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.

If Beethoven could hear a CD recording of his music (assuming he returned to this world with his hearing intact) he would probably throw one of his famous fits. The performance would seem to him ...

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 ...