Beethoven pioneered Romanticism and expanded previously strict formulas for symphonies and sonatas, and introduced a whole new approach to music, giving his works references to other aspects of life - ...

This young Ludwig Van Beethoven would soon impress his ... This experience helped shape his work ethic as well as his musical breadth. He played the violin and the viola as well as the piano ...

Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard performer and composer. After much success as a young composer, he moved to Vienna to be taught music by composer Joseph Haydn. This did not work out for ...

What does the name “Beethoven” bring to mind? A plaster effigy of a tousle-haired, grimacing visage, perhaps, staring out from the top of a piano or from above the entrance to a concert hall ...

In the final movement of each of these works, Beethoven comes upon – or has delivered into his hands – the musical grail he had been seeking. In the Fifth Symphony, it is a simple C major triad.

After listening to pianist Jon Batiste’s most recent record album, Blues, for the umpteenth time, I reveled in the fact that this is “easy listening” music that could provide the soundtrack for the ...

L udwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a prodigious composer, credited with 722 works that pushed the boundaries of music and ushered in the Romantic era. Yet, his personal life was marred by ...

Symphony in C is presenting work from 'Beethoven & Schubert' for one night only, on February 22 at Gordon Theater.

An international team of researchers has turned to genetic science to probe the roots of musical genius, using none other than Ludwig van Beethoven as a case study. Nearly two centuries after the ...

Between now and May, music director Nathalie Stutzmann leads the ensemble in eight of Beethoven’s nine symphonies ... only his second performance of the work for the ASO. He last played the ...