A first-ever mountain concert series featuring 32 pianists performing 32 piano sonatas is underway to celebrate the ...
CLASSICAL HEIST: "It's kind of like Ocean’s 11," says The Beethoven 32 organizer Hwa-Jin Kim, pictured. "I had a lot of fun coming up with the title." Photo courtesy of Sonare Music Academy Movie ...
A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...
When Chuck Berry first sang “Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!” in 1956, he was trumpeting the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and, perhaps, forecasting the decline of classical music. Sixty-four ...
Watch a video of the inaugural performance from the Church of Beethoven. Albuquerque, N.M., is no different from any other American city, in terms of its religious life; you've got churches, ...
Ludwig van Beethoven, despite profound deafness, continued to compose masterpieces like the Ninth Symphony. He developed an inner musical model, relying on imagination, memory, and meticulous ...
In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...
"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well ...
What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Researchers have completed a first analysis of Beethoven's writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns. EPFL researchers are ...