One of the world’s most influential composers, Ludwig van Beethoven changed the course of Western music. Despite losing his hearing, he created some of history’s most celebrated works, and his ...

Despite the leading motifs Beethoven wrote for the soloist, Shaham was almost deferential to the orchestra, which was led ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was ... and soon he could only hear his works by imagining the sounds in his head, this made him even more angry and difficult to know. Beethoven tried out lots of inventions ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about happiness and music but didn’t mention perhaps the most famously joyful work ever written: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, composed in 1824, which ends ...

There is a common misconception about the music Ludwig van Beethoven wrote during the so-called “early period” of his career in the 1790s. To wit that, because he spent those years studying with Franz ...

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1746; Ludwig van Beethoven ... Ghost Trio was written in 1808 alongside the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and has the power, energy, and ...