Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Manfred Honeck, a leading Beethoven conductor, guides us through the beginning of the end of the mighty Ninth Symphony. Credit...Video by Ross Mantle For The New York Times ...

Sometimes, when fielding audience questions after screenings of “In Search of Beethoven,” Phil Grabsky lets it slip that an early cut of his 2009 documentary stretched to 11 1/2 hours long. “People ...

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A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his Tenth Symphony before his death in 1827. A team of musicologists and programmers is racing to ...