When Beethoven is said to be “one of the greatest” composers, or “the greatest” composer, those who make the claim do so ...

Nikolaj Znaider, music director in Lyon, speaks of “Beethoven’s elegance, exuberance and sense of wonder”. That nails it for me. The Seventh is Beethoven at his most human, his least forbidding.

Beethoven is considered by many the greatest classical music mind of all time. From his symphonies to his sonatas, I’m going to count down this extraordinary composer’s most memorable pieces of music.

On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the greatest master who ever lived. In an essay for The New York Times, conductor Daniel ...

Once upon a time, piano music was the social media of its day. The 19th and early 20th Centuries were the heyday of the piano ...

We put on a brave face and dare to rank the nine remarkable symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven – from great to the very greatest. From the iconic knocks of fate in Beethoven’s Fifth, to the unbridled ...

Beethoven’s majestic but tender slow ... with its choral Ode to Joy, perhaps the greatest symphonic music ever written. The dramatic effectiveness on Thursday night was similar to an actor ...

(orchestra music) (music) - When we think about who the greatest composers of the past were, Beethoven's name always comes up without question. Throughout Beethoven's life, he was always ...