His Symphony No. 5 contains one of the most famous motifs in musical history and has even been reused in pop songs! Incredibly, Beethoven wrote this symphony when he was beginning to lose his hearing.

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On 7th May 1824, the premiere of Beethoven's 9th Symphony took place in Vienna. Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic recreate this great moment in music history with a performance the ...

The Albany Symphony ’s concert on Saturday night in the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall was a good welcome to 2025. Composer ...

Beethoven's Ninth was "revolutionary," Otto ... says the piece is part of the orchestra’s history. “It’s part of our DNA, a unique piece,” he told the BBC. “It's an outcry for peace.

In his 14 seasons as concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, David Coucheron has performed Beethoven’s music more times than he can remember. But ask about his first experience with the ...

Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand ... Fernanda Eberstadt’s Bite Your Friends is both a history of the body as a site of resistance to power, and a subversive memoir ...

Dove had stumbled upon George Augustus Bridgetower, a mixed-race violinist who had 15 minutes of fame and then was written out of history. In 2009, after extensive research and exploration, Dove ...

On Thursday evening, the BSO and music director Andris Nelsons launched the central series of concerts of the Beethoven and Romanticism festival Quick! Picture Beethoven in your mind. I wager you ...