The Phoenix Symphony and The Phoenix Symphony Chorus under Maestro Tito Muñoz perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Choral ...

A portrait of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven in 1818. 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its ...

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN died in 1827, just a hundred years ago on the twenty-sixth of March, and therefore special efforts have been made to revive Fidelio out of its state of being a mere ‘series of ...

Just as the real Beethoven had an intense admiration for Napoleon Bonaparte, whom he considered a great revolutionary ...

TROY, N.Y. — The feeling most of us have when leaving a concert featuring the work of a musical giant like Beethoven is awe for the genius of the composer. This weekend the Albany Symphony Orchestra ...

THE object of the series of which this article forms a part is the study of some great thinker or man of action in a period of crisis that made an obvious dividing line in his life. To achieve ...

As long as we have prisons and government, and as long as profit and power remain factors in that equation, we do well to keep the warning of “Fidelio” in our cultural employ. The abuse of power that ...

Composer and conductor Steve Hackman from Chicago hopes to break down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds. It hasn’t been easy.