Hector Berlioz’s music is most often heard at Davies Symphony Hall in repeat performances of his “Symphonie Fantastique,” a piece that took Beethoven’s symphonic model and raised it to ...

When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore” Overture No. 3 subbed in. By Corinna da Fonseca ...

Jules from Facebook remembers playing Beethoven’s Für Elise as a young child which “drove my family mad.” “Something about the complexity and the changing rhythms and textures resonated ...

Starting at the end, Georgia and Henry look at the report of Beethoven's post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim ...

On May 7, 1824, Beethoven’s Ninth premiered in Vienna. Deaf, defiant, and incandescent, he conducted to a hall he could not hear. The audience wept. A singer turned him around to show the ovation. Two ...