Ken-David Masur will conclude his Milwaukee Symphony music directorship with Beethoven's daunting Missa Solemnis.

The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is known the world over, yet the opening motif is only four notes long. Music researchers have long wondered — is fate really knocking on the door at the ...

In the first in his new series Tom Service looks at the most famous, and influential, symphonic work of them all And so, it begins. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds its hammer blows of fate; or ...

Manfred Honeck conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's masterpiece.

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 ...

In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven petitioning the great composer to reconsider his plans to premiere his latest work in Berlin and instead ...

When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, ...

Many of Beethoven's works are titled, yet many of these names came from friends or from those to whom the pieces were dedicated. The Sixth Symphony, however, is one of only two symphonies Beethoven ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, ...

As one of the most sampled works in classical music history, Beethoven’s Fifth symphony has been famously remixed by Walter Murphy, Busta Rhymes and others. Now listeners - musically trained or not - ...