Saturday night’s performance will feature works by Felix Mendelssohn, Alexander Borodin, Jessie Montgomery and Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven’s fourth ... Montgomery said in a Chicago Symphony ...

Ludwig has been a substantial hit for the BBC. Have we finally got over our obsession with edgy, true-life murder mysteries?

A study published in 2023 highlights significant discoveries that were only made possible through DNA analysis of Beethoven’s hair.

The composer would outlive his doctor by nearly two decades, yet close to two centuries after Beethoven's death a team of ...

The original poem, written in 1785 by German Friedrich Schiller, was immortalized in 1824 when Ludwig van Beethoven used an ...

The world has lost one of the most iconic music figures ever embedded in the annals of music history. Quincy Jones will ...

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) composed nine symphonies that bridge the Classical and Romantic eras, with his second symphony marking the former and his third, “Eroica,” signaling the latter.

“I would uncover my head and kneel on his grave,” Ludwig van Beethoven once remarked about George Frederic Handel. And even as Beethoven lay dying, he venerated Handel as the greatest composer ...

Two hundred years ago, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was “a piece that completely shatters anyone's preconceived ...

The second piece of the evening will be Ludwig van Beethoven’s second symphony, composed in 1802. As audience members will read in Scott Weiss’s notes in the printed program, this particular ...

Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated each of these concertos almost as symphonies, so closely did they engage ...