In 1804, four years before the Fifth Symphony’s first performance, Beethoven wrote out the sketches of the opening theme of his next symphony. Scholars have used this manuscript as a source of ...

The Missouri Symphony will celebrate its 55th season with Beethoven, opera and by getting a little "Wicked." After completing its annual Firefly Music Festival this summer, the ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven's piano music is some of the most popular, and constantly played by performers everywhere. But if you're a first-time listener, where do you start?

But, unlike some of Beethoven’s radical early piano sonatas, the First Symphony, in the ceremonial, trumpet-and-drum key of C major, contained little to alarm an audience who by 1800 had ...

What do you need to know about the set piece Symphony No. 1 Movement 1? Find out the answer and many more facts about Beethoven with this AQA GCSE Music revision guide.

Jeremy Nicholas introduces a piano transcription of Haydn’s Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93 by Julius Schulhoff. The sheet music for the work appears in our Spring 2025 issue Spina, the Viennese ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he left behind a few short sketches thought to be the beginnings of his 10th Symphony. Beethoven's repertoire includes nine symphonies, five piano concertos ...

This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument survey at Carnegie Hall was a reintroduction to some of the world’s most famous music. Share full article 25 ...

A rare manuscript belonging to composer Ludwig van Beethoven has sold for $100,000 (£67,000) at an auction. The handwritten piece of sheet music known as ‘King Stephen’ was recently ...

The opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony are iconic, but Alexander Shelley promises that the piece has much more in store. The next artistic and music director of the Pacific Symphony ...