Nicholas Kitchen, the Borromeo Quartet's first violinist, shares his thoughts about Beethoven's "Great Fugue." The members of the Borromeo Quartet are regular visitors to WGBH. To hear and see them ...

In 1826, a year before he died, Beethoven did something so unfathomable that it ranks as one of the greatest mysteries in his story: he made a compromise. His publisher, concerned by the response to ...

Beethoven was sitting in a bar after the 1826 premiere of his String Quartet No. 13 when some buddies sat down next to him. The final movement, the Fuge, was a little hard to digest, they told the ...

Displayed to the public at the Palmer Theological Seminary for just one afternoon yesterday, the 80-page manuscript, dated 1826, is a seminal find for scholars of Beethoven and classical music.

With the Edinburgh International Festival’s survey of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas well passed now, the Beethoven baton passes to Glasgow for the final instalment of the city’s three-year focus on the ...

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the only West Coast appearance of France’s Lyon Opera Ballet, celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with “Trois Grandes Fugues,” showcasing three interpretations of his ...

The Great Fugue is one of Beethoven’s late works – full of despair but also enthusiasm. Now Lyon’s Opera ballet is performing the latest interpretation of the German composer’s classic with the help ...

Three well-known choreographers of contemporary dance take a stab at Beethoven's "Great Fugue" in a fascinating experiment by the Lyon Opera. Can one listen to the same piece three times in succession ...

Beethoven “message to the future” to be communicated tonight at UB when Dover Quartet performs third concert in the Slee Cycle. The UB Music Department presents the award-winning Dover Quartet tonight ...

LONDON — A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby’s auctioneers said. Sotheby’s described the manuscript, discovered in a ...

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