Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (WPVI) -- Symphony in C is presenting work from 'Beethoven & Schubert' for one night only, on February 22 at Gordon Theater. Noam Aviel is the Music Director for Symphony in C and is ...

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

The French record label Naïve has released a new Beethoven Symphony cycle as a single 5-CD unit, forgoing individual releases of the symphonies, which have typically come out two to a disc, with the ...

Greek mythology, Beethoven, symphonic music — all heavy stuff — so what’s all the fun about? Leave it to San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and animator Hillary Leben to create ...

The Winston-Salem Symphony and Music Director Michelle Merrill will present two Classics Series concerts featuring Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and two of his other masterworks with roots in ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has been one of history’s most celebratory pieces of music throughout its history, since its premiere in Vienna in 1824. Perhaps most notable was when Leonard Bernstein ...

Raphaël Pichon led the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a take on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony that, with an added prelude, unfurled ...