A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

I cannot imagine what a celestial-level bummer it must be to spend more than two centuries hovering around the ether, waiting for your big sestercentennial bash to pop off and take over the planet, ...

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano, in the Nelson Music Room, featuring violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Ieva ...

Whether or not music stirs inside, each of us bears a living metronome at our core. It may tick at 40 or 100 beats per minute, in three-quarter time or in six-eight, erratically or like a Swiss clock.

If Beethoven could hear a CD recording of his music (assuming he returned to this world with his hearing intact) he would probably throw one of his famous fits. The performance would seem to him ...

Beethoven’s birthday is Dec. 16, but he had an early celebration Friday evening at Sherwood Auditorium. There the Takács Quartet presented an all-Beethoven program as the opening concert of the La ...