Beethoven’s renown in his own day was not just as a composer but also as an improvising pianist. He wrote in a letter in July ...

The Sinfonietta DuPage hosts its first concert of the season featuring Timothy Archbold on cello in Luigi Boccherini’s ...

As the National Symphony ... that evening—Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 73, nicknamed “Emperor” in English-speaking countries, and Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life), the ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a well-known composer of the late Classical period. His music was heavily influenced by his predecessors Mozart and Haydn. A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra.

Use the audio player at the top of this page to hear Jeffrey Kahane's audio guide through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, ...

Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated each of these concertos almost as symphonies, so closely did they engage ...

The works discussed include Beethoven's Pastoral and Eroica Symphonies, Haydn's Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's symphonies on Ovid's Metamorphoses, and ...