Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will rely on guest conductors for its next season with Music Director Ken-David Masur leaving at the end of this one.

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, ...

PM, the Great Falls Philharmonic joins forces with Voce Chamber Singers for an extraordinary performance. Under the baton of ...

Pachamama—the Inca-Quechua word for Mother Earth—meets Beethoven in composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s piece Pachamama Meets an Ode. Inspired by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the work reflects on the ideals ...

This is the first article addressing the Beethoven sympnonies individually. For an introduction to the composer's symphony cycle, see The Beethoven Symphony Series 1: The Nine Symphonies Ludwig van ...

Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Third Symphony in E flat, the Eroica.

Decades of research have been poured into every musical and instrumental aspect of the “Historically Informed Performance” (HIP) of classical music: From the way the continuo bands of the time ...

Acclaimed violinist Eunice Kim will join the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra on March 21 for its tribute to beloved composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Along with the "Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven!" ...

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 ...

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.” That may not be an ...

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 the baton of ...

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. Beethoven ...