Independent of its original symphonic setting, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” has become an anthem of rejoicing, a call to replace division and confrontation with love, unity, and understanding.

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated composers in history, left behind a legacy that transcends centuries. Beyond his timeless music, Beethoven's journey holds invaluable lessons for ...

The Spokane Symphony Chorale is ringing in the new year with their rendition of Beethoven’s powerful Ninth Symphony. Often ...

Beethoven’s majestic but tender ... with its choral Ode to Joy, perhaps the greatest symphonic music ever written. The ...

Written when Beethoven was almost completely deaf ... has become one of the most recognisable pieces of classical music. Ode To Joy has accompanied some of the world's most historic turning ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about happiness and music but didn’t mention perhaps the most famously joyful work ever written: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, composed in 1824, which ends with the ...

Marion Cultural Alliance has awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant to the Ocala Symphony Orchestra to support its ...

Heidrun Irene Mittermair, an alto in the Vienna Singverein Choir, says that Beethoven's Ninth ... of Western classical music and culminating in the Ode to Joy, was first performed in 1824 in ...

Since 2011, the Green Mountain Mahler Festival has celebrated every New Year’s Day — save for a COVID hiatus — with a ...

The centerpiece is the complete cycle of the nine symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven ... culminating with Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 (“Ode to Joy”), the latter featuring a roster of acclaimed ...

Perhaps all of that seems only natural, given the fact that Beethoven progressively lost ... and wrote an “Ode to Joy.” He may even have succeeded. On May 7, 1824, he conducted the premiere ...