“He has … the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world.” That’s Leonard Bernstein on Beethoven during a segment of CBS’ 1950s ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

One night in December of 1808, Ludwig Van Beethoven stepped onto the podium of Vienna's Theater An Der Wein. He was there to debut a whole new series of works he'd written, including his Fifth ...

Ian Hislop and John Eliot Gardiner reveal the story behind Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Described as the 'greatest 'great' piece ever written,' its opening notes are among the most recognisable in ...

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...

Three shorts and a long. It’s the musical equivalent of E = mc2 : on the surface, a deceptively simple formula that yields previously unimaginable results — including many Ludwig van Beethoven himself ...

Dum-dum-dum-DUM! The opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony are as iconic as they come, a musical phrase that even those new to classical music may recognize immediately from its popular cultural ...