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 ...

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It's one of the most famous musical passages ever written. Ludwig van Beethoven starts his Fifth Symphony with four percussive notes, then spends the next four movements inventing new ways to make ...

Although many people are spending this year’s Christmas tucked away in their homes (like so many gnomes), there are still some grand holiday displays happening. Light shows are certainly popping off ...

The Korean Chamber Orchestra (KCO) will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 and No. 5 in an upcoming concert in December, ...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), led by Music Director Jaime Martn, wraps the season with the LACO-commissioned world premiere ofFloodplainby Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid,LACO's ...

The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra announced they’ll perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5 on Saturday, November 15. It will be the first time in 15 years that the Orchestra will perform ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

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 ...

The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” But the very ...

The post-modern politics of power are now trying to tack their sloppy thought processes onto Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. An article at vox.com claims: “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony starts with an ...