Beethoven's output for cello and piano spanned his lifetime -- starting with the two sonatas he composed in 1796; two near ...

This Chicago Symphony Orchestra program running through Saturday offers an exciting glimpse into what Mäkelä, the group's music director designate, has in store for local audiences.

A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste is set to release his first solo piano album, titled “Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1),” on Nov. 15. This album is a unique blend of classical and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...

During a senior year English lit seminar when I was in college, the conversation drifted toward the Romantics—and for some reason touched on German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. One of my fellow ...

Even as he struggled with the onset of deafness, Beethoven took the piano sonata into new realms of expressive power and beauty. Beethoven composed his Moonlight Sonata in 1801, the same year that — A ...

2020 marks 250 years since the birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven and CPR Classical celebrates! Ludwig van Beethoven’s influence has permeated cultural consciousness through three intrinsically linked ...

It was the year of Beethoven. During 2020 the world wanted to celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birthday with concerts, symposiums, lectures, podcasts, radio specials, etc. At least that’s what had been ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music. By Anthony ...

Think some things are so beloved and essential to Western civilization they can’t be canceled? Think again. If there’s anything we should have learned from months of “mostly peaceful” Black Lives ...