Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this symphony, called The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination. Guerrieri writes about how Beethoven's piece resonated with ...

This opening finds Beethoven at his most playful: After a loud chord intoned by the full orchestra, the first violins slowly work their way up the notes of the scale, first three notes ...

Tis the season of the 9th symphonies. It’s occuring at all levels of the classical music world. The Berlin Philharmonic is ...

In May, we look at Symphony No. 5. For many, it’s hard to imagine not knowing them: those first four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. The power. The drive. The relentless determination.

Beethoven’s housekeepers remembered that, as his hearing got worse, he would sit at the piano, put a pencil in his mouth, touching the other end of it to the soundboard of the instrument, to feel the ...

Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this symphony, called The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination. Guerrieri writes about how Beethoven's piece resonated with ...