The Northern Neck Orchestra’s (NNO) annual Chamberfest will featuring concerts with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Joseph Haydn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel and Robert Schumann. “Music by ...

A performance of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's The Blue Danube was beamed into space for an unusual audience over the ...

Strauss' "Blue Danube" is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth.

To complete the work, Mr Moraes used historical photographs of the musician's skull provided by the Beethoven House in Bonn, Germany. Along with the images, which were taken by Johann Batta ...

The Blue Danube, by Johann Strauss, will be beamed into the ... The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky, along with modern ...

At 15, Johann Sebastian gained a position in the choir at Lüneburg ... he did not write music in a fever of inspiration like Beethoven, say, nor was he motivated by the same holy dedication to art as ...

Beethoven had a thoroughly miserable childhood thanks to his alcoholic brute of a father (a singer in the Electoral Chapel in Bonn). Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, ...

Johann Adam Schmidt, Beethoven's physician. (Wikimedia Commons/PD) What began as tinnitus in his 20s slowly gave way to a reduced tolerance for loud noise, and eventually a loss of hearing in the ...

Of the three, it is Beethoven whose religious beliefs have proven the most elusive. We know all about the devout Lutheranism of Bach, who wrote his music “for the glory of God and the refreshment of ...

Verdict: This is partly true. Ludwig van Beethoven was indeed born into a poor family. The family lived in Bonn; his father, Johann Beethoven, was a singer in the court chapel of the Elector of ...