TROY, N.Y. — The feeling most of us have when leaving a concert featuring the work of a musical giant like Beethoven is awe for the genius of the composer. This weekend the Albany Symphony Orchestra ...

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

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Beethoven was stone deaf and in poor health when his last and greatest symphony, the Ninth (“Choral”) with its “Ode to Joy” finale, was premiered in May 1824. Although several eyewitness accounts of ...

Kanye West is proving that perhaps the impossible is possible. Kanye West is proving that perhaps the impossible is possible. So much so, that Ye and the late musical genius Beethoven are having a ...

Richard Kogan, an award-winning psychiatrist and pianist, sees Beethoven as more than just the mad genius he’s often portrayed as. The composer also has “an extraordinary story of recovery from trauma ...

A year before the end of his extraordinarily productive life, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote a brief, existential question on the score of the final movement of his last completed major work: “Muss es ...

Don’t let the title “Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary” throw you off. This is not one of those Marxian screeds that evaluate the work of an artist by perceived progressive leanings: There is ...

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