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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, ...
André de Ridder conducts the NZSO in two of Beethoven’s most dramatic works written around the same time, both in C minor - ...
Deifying the composer and his work only serves to reinforce America’s white patriarchy at the expense of countless others who ...
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… ...
Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies have influenced every generation of composers since they were written. Riccardo Chailly talks to Philip Clark about the enduring power of the symphonies Ludwig van ...
Historically Informed Performance has thus far usually extended only to the score, instruments, and performance practices. The REsound project extends it to the venues and performs all of ...
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." ...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will break new ground — and cover new ground, too — with upcoming performances included in an extensive Beethoven in Your Neighborhood project. Under ...
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 ...
Thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.
From an all-Beethoven residency week, hear the storied Berlin Philharmonic play the profound Sixth and witty Eighth with conductor Simon Rattle.