Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music. By the time of its 1824 premier, the composer was completely deaf. At the end of ...

Symphony No. 9 was the pinnacle of Beethoven's remarkable career. Boston Public Library/Flickr, CC BY In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

The Spokane Symphony will conclude 2025 and ring in the New Year with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9.

On stage again this Sunday afternoon, May 12, it has all the earmarks of a season finale: a flashy violin concerto, an audience favorite soloist, a huge work for orchestra, chorus, and four soloists ...

Nestled in the middle of all of it was Yunchan Lim, the mop-haired 21-year-old who made history three years ago as the Van ...

Whether Beethoven saved his best symphony for last is a matter of opinion. However, one can hang several descriptors on his Symphony No. 9, and “anticlimactic” isn’t one of them. If you’re performing ...

Beethoven’s last symphonic work, Symphony No. 9, premiered 200 years ago on May 7, 1824, in Vienna, Austria. The Elgin Symphony Orchestra will wrap up its 74th season with performances of this ...

As Handel’s “Messiah” is a revered Christmas ritual, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has become a New Year’s Day tradition here in ...

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present a Masterworks concert at the Morris Performing Arts Center. The program Jessica Carter's Hidden: In memory of Rosemary Sanders, Max Bruch's Violin ...

As Michigan conductors wave their batons, symphony orchestras across the state are ready to take the stage and share ...