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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 ...

The world will be celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday next year, but Chicago got started on Thursday night. Before a large audience in Orchestra Hall, with even the terrace seating behind the stage ...

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, listeners will hear the complete Beethoven symphonies as recorded live by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The recordings, still in progress as ...

Monika Vischer and biographer Jan Swafford explore Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. Monika Vischer and biographer Jan Swafford explore Beethoven's Symphony No. 2. The Beethoven 9 as we explore the ...

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After 15 years, Green Mountain Mahler Festival’s annual New Year’s Day performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at ...

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 ...

Fred Child and Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Christoph Eschenbach discuss the diametrically opposed messages Beethoven wrote into the final movements of his Ninth Symphony. A universal expression ...

This year marks the 250th birthday of one of the most revered composers who ever lived: Ludwig van Beethoven, who was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1770. Beethoven wrote hundreds of piano sonatas, ...