Beethoven composed some the most recognisable classical music in the world, from his monumental "Choral" Symphony to intimate solo piano music like the "Moonlight" Sonata. In 2019, ABC Classic ...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — with its famous, jolting first four-notes — broke expressive ground and overturned many of the formal concepts on which the classical symphony had been based. The scoring ...

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 ...

'All people become brothers.' Beethoven’s epic final symphony, a vision for music and for humanity. Beethoven, by this time almost entirely deaf, conducted the premiere performance of his Choral ...

These pieces were financed by music lovers with deep pockets. Much of the Western classical music we enjoy today came into being as a result of the patronage system. But that music is really an ...

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After the night of June 6, 1962, the classical music press was abuzz with discussion over the the remarks that Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s then-principal conductor, had ...

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Kanye West is proving that perhaps the impossible is possible. Kanye West is proving that perhaps the impossible is possible. So much so, that Ye and the late musical genius Beethoven are having a ...