If only he could have heard it. When the symphony premiered on May 7, 1824 at a theater in Vienna, Austria, Beethoven was, for all intents and purposes, completely deaf. So when he stood on stage ...

Beethoven had lived in Vienna since 1792, when he left his hometown of Bonn, Germany, to pursue a career as a composer. Beethoven rose to world renown, but by the 1820s he had fallen out of favor ...

To play Beethovens music is to give oneself over completely to the childspirit which lived in that grim awkward violent man Without that utter submission it is impossible to play the Adagio of the ...

The Vienna Philharmonic returned to Southern California in fine form, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin with Yefim Bronfman ...

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On Thursday, 22 December 1808 Beethoven participated in a benefit concert of his music at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. It was the most ambitious concert he ever organised, ridiculously so ...

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 ...

From Verona to the concert hall of the Calcutta School of Music, pianist Daniele Buccio brought with him a unique proposition ...

On Sunday afternoon, the concert featured pianist Yefim Bronfman with the Vienna Philharmonic delivering Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and then Strauss’s world-renown triumph, Ein Heldenleben.