An original manuscript of a movement from one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s last compositions sold Friday for $2.03 million. The manuscript from the scherzo movement of his Opus 127 string quartet was ...

In the first in his new series Tom Service looks at the most famous, and influential, symphonic work of them all And so, it begins. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds its hammer blows of fate; or ...

Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul Watkins has ...

When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his Tenth Symphony but, ...