Musical Days Productions, Mari Kodama and Kent Nagano announced "A Portrait of BEETHOVEN: 32 Sonatas for Piano," a four-concert festival featuring world class performers in a celebration of the ...

The lives of the great composers continue to fascinate music lovers — though none, it could be argued, exert quite the fascination of Beethoven, who continues to attract biographers and commentators, ...

Beethoven's Ninth has topped the ABC Classic 100 countdown for the fifth time. We explore its mystique and shed light on ...

It is the artistic human-interest story to end them all. The most famous "Classical" composer spent the better part of his late composing period almost completely deaf, in the process completing a ...

He’s the towering musical genius who didn’t let his deafness prevent him from becoming one of the world’s greatest composers. Ludwig van Beethoven may have been born 250 years ago, but his story of ...

Millions of people around the world continue to enjoy and enthuse over the work of Ludwig van Beethoven on the 250th anniversary of his birth, December 17, 1770. His music long ago broke through the ...

A team of researchers tested Beethoven’s DNA for beat synchronization ability, a trait related to musicality. While Beethoven’s polygenic score was unremarkable compared to the general population, the ...

Famed Classical/Romantic composer Ludwig van Beethoven had a distinct statistical signature to his compositional style, according to an innovative analysis published in a recent paper in PLOS ONE. The ...

Could it be that when Ludwig van Beethoven composed some of the greatest masterpieces of all time that he was quite literally following his heart? Could it be that when Ludwig van Beethoven composed ...

After tomorrow, Pope Benedict XVI will experience that bittersweet relief felt by millions of less lofty workers worldwide — retirement. And leaving the top spot in the Catholic Church, at least in ...