A street pianist brings timeless classical music to the public with a live rendition of Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight ...

The overplayed Beethoven Symphony No. 5 begins to pulse and breathe. It does so at the hands of Carlos Kleiber.I have ...

A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

Last summer, the meme “Beethoven was Black” was trending online, a trope that drew the iconic composer into a 21st century discussion about race and social justice. But there is another curious ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

My early memories of classical music are of scratchy wool pants and of throwing up before — and after — my violin lessons. Then we moved to another state. My violin teacher gave me a book — a ...

It has to be the best £50 ever spent. Exactly 200 years ago, Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Society commissioned Beethoven to compose his ninth symphony, a work that cracked open the form (and gave us ...

During a senior year English lit seminar when I was in college, the conversation drifted toward the Romantics—and for some reason touched on German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. One of my fellow ...

We begin our new series with Beethoven, the gruff uncompromising genius who changed music forever It’s not only because this year is the 250th anniversary of his birth that Ludwig van Beethoven ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music. By Anthony ...