We wanted to do something very celebratory for the end of the 80th season to kind of cap it off,” conductor and music ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German ... recognisable moments of all orchestral music, and the end of his 9th symphony is thought by many to be the greatest melody ever written.

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

written for Beethoven’s political prison break opera “Fidelio,” represented the “greatest music about freedom ever written.” Far from being a stop gap, the new program created what ...

which was described by Beethoven himself as his ‘greatest work’. Barry Cooper is a world-leading expert on Beethoven who has recently published a new critical edition of this masterpiece. This will be ...

Considered as ahead of his time in his music, Beethoven appears to have been modern in his taste in hot beverages too. He liked his coffee and he liked it strong, starting every day by counting ...