Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

A statue of Beethoven gets a homemade mask in Bonn, Germany, where measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak are still in effect this month. (Getty Images) “He has … the power to make you feel at the ...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is arguably the greatest piece of music ever composed. José Luis Gomez will go one step further: “This symphony seems to be included in the DNA of humanity,” the Tucson ...

Western Piedmont Symphony's 2024-2025 season continues with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on November 9, 2024. This concert showcases the iconic first four notes of Beethoven's work, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. New Jersey Symphony has revealed its 2025–26 season, Music Director Xian Zhang’s ...

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...

The Dallas Symphony and music director Jaap van Zweden indulge, this weekend, in the time-honored classical music programming tactic of matching a new, unfamiliar work with a standard box office cash ...

The Alexandria Symphony had performed consistently for 78 years. Suddenly, it found itself sidelined for the past 18 months due to the pandemic. “The essence of what we do as an orchestra is put lots ...

Three shorts and a long. It’s the musical equivalent of E = mc2 : on the surface, a deceptively simple formula that yields previously unimaginable results — including many Ludwig van Beethoven himself ...

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

“He has … the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.” That’s Leonard Bernstein on Beethoven during a segment of CBS’ 1950s ...