Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Beethoven at 250 The conductor John Eliot Gardiner talks about a life listening to and performing the world’s most-played symphonies. John Eliot Gardiner rehearsing ...

Though the modern listener may never know it, Beethoven composed after Haydn and Mozart, but not after Wagner and Brahms. Acknowledged as the reformer of the sonata form as used in the symphony, ...

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… ...

When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony ...

I am inaugurating a new series as part of my column "Bailey's Bundles," focusing on Ludwig van Beethoven's Nine Symphonies. This inauguration is in response to the first American Beethoven Cycle in ...

Justin Brown's avowal to take the Alabama Symphony through all nine Beethoven symphonies in his first three seasons as music director has been, as he puts it, "an interesting, worthwhile journey.

With the releases of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 and No. 9 on single discs and all nine symphonies in a boxed set, the Beethoven project of David Zinman and Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra is now completed.

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre ...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic is calling its cycle of Beethoven's nine symphonies, which Gustavo Dudamel began Thursday night at Walt Disney Concert Hall, "Immortal Beethoven." ...