When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...

3 St. Luke's Episcopal Church Atlanta Honors 50 Years With Star-Studded Messiah Sing Along The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia opens their 2013 - 2014 concert season with beloved works by ...

Even for a Grammy Award-winning group, playing all 17 Beethoven quartets in live concert is an act of daring. Takács Quartet likes a challenge. They were four musicians in a small room, just back from ...

(CBS 11) - I have had a love affair with classical music since 1965 when I started taking piano lessons in Dallas as a kid. From 1965-1972, I had anywhere between one and two lessons per week and came ...

Beethoven's First Symphony, dedicated to Baron Gottfried Van Swieten, came at age 29. Fittingly, it was the dawn of a new century. It appeared late in what scholars define as the first period of ...

The Beethoven House in the western German city of Bonn has purchased an important original manuscript by composer Ludwig van Beethoven with the help of public and private donors. The Cultural ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, ...