Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No. 5 contains one of the most famous motifs in musical ...

Inspecting Beethoven's ear trumpets at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, with Dr Erica Buurman.

Did you know that Beethoven contemplated, however fleetingly, writing more than forty symphonies and that for the Missa solemnis he sought stimulus from a Latin-German dictionary? And what about the ...

Beethoven's middle-period quartets, Opp. 59, 74 and 95, are pieces that engage deeply with the aesthetic ideas of their time. In the first full contextual study of these works, Nancy November ...

Beethoven suffered from liver disease - possibly from his alcohol consumption - and hepatitis B, researchers found Beethoven had a likely genetic predisposition to liver disease and a hepatitis B ...

Hear him improvise on some of Beethoven’s classics. Credit... Supported by By Javier C. Hernández Photographs and Video by Kandice Chavous Long before Jon Batiste was a bandleader, television ...

Heidrun Irene Mittermair, an alto in the Vienna Singverein Choir, says that Beethoven's Ninth is a “wonderful message of love” Vienna is hosting a series of performances of Ludwig van ...