Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is arguably the greatest piece of music ever composed. José Luis Gomez will go one step further: “This symphony seems to be included in the DNA of humanity,” the Tucson ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

“He has … the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.” That’s Leonard Bernstein on Beethoven during a segment of CBS’ 1950s ...

The most famous four notes in music usher in a towering masterpiece for the ages in Beethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony. Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada returns to Houston for the first time ...

Join the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA and Maestro Salvador Brotons as they perform two iconic works by Beethoven. They will begin with The Egmont Overture and then interpret one of the most ...

The Dallas Symphony and music director Jaap van Zweden indulge, this weekend, in the time-honored classical music programming tactic of matching a new, unfamiliar work with a standard box office cash ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. New Jersey Symphony has revealed its 2025–26 season, Music Director Xian Zhang’s ...

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...

When Chuck Berry first sang “Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!” in 1956, he was trumpeting the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and, perhaps, forecasting the decline of classical music. Sixty-four ...

Conductor and pianist Daniel Bruce has had a lifelong passion for the music of Ludwig van Beethoven — to the extent of helming the Green Mountain Mahler Festival’s New Year’s Day performances of the ...

A statue of Beethoven gets a homemade mask in Bonn, Germany, where measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak are still in effect this month. (Getty Images) “He has … the power to make you feel at the ...