CLEVELAND, Ohio – Few melodies in the classical canon hold as much name recognition as Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” The beloved tune, set to the words of German poet Friedrich Schiller, comes from the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1994, an orthopaedic surgeon using a payphone in upstate New York noticed a thunderstorm in the distance. He ...

NEW YORK – Babies, movies and a pandemic. Life came at the band OK Go pretty quickly. "The next thing we knew, it had been like eight years since our last record and we got to work making one," lead ...

The Beethoven notebooks have at last been made public in entirety by Walter Nohl of Munich. They have been the most cherished possession of the Music Department of the State Library at Berlin.

Gramophone's historic recordings guru discusses a classic set of these nine great works George Szell took over the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, and, once he had created the instrument he needed, he ...

The classic format of an orchestral concert is overture–concerto–symphony. Last night at the New York Philharmonic, we had concerto–symphony. The former piece was the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, ...

About a third of the way into his new documentary, Beethoven’s Nine: Ode to Humanity, director Larry Weinstein (Ravel’s Brain, Making Overtures) settles in front of the camera, and introduces himself ...

Rhiannon May (centre) plays Ludwig van Beethoven in the British Sign Language performance at the BBC Proms Conversations between Ludwig van Beethoven and his friends are being used for a British Sign ...

This performance, preceded by an illuminating, engaging and amusing 45-minute “musical and dramatic exploration”, was a reminder of quite how far Aurora has grown in confidence and stature, and has ...

We put on a brave face and dare to rank the nine remarkable symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven – from great to the very greatest. From the iconic knocks of fate in Beethoven’s Fifth, to the unbridled ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a prodigious composer. He’s credited with 722 individual works, including symphonies, sonatas, and choral music — creations that pushed the boundaries of composition and ...

Virtuosic pianist and composer Beethoven suffered from several debilitating ailments. A new study suggests lead poisoning may be at least partly... Beethoven was a classical and romantic composer, but ...