The legacy of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and the composers who came after

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

Musical Days Productions Presents A PORTRAIT OF BEETHOVEN

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 Music Network

Beethoven Tops ABC Classic 100 Countdown for Fifth Time

Beethoven’s 'Symphony No. 9' has once again been named Australia’s favourite classical work, topping the latest ABC Classic ...
Seattle Times

Books on Beethoven: under the skin (and skull) of a musical genius

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, ...
Jazz

Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery by Robin Wallace

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 ...
CNN

Beethoven’s Bonn: A musical tour of the composer’s home city

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 ...
Popular Mechanics

A Lock of Beethoven’s Hair Holds Clues to His Musical Genius

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 ...
Ars Technica

Roll over, Beethoven: Decoding the maestro’s musical style with statistics

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 ...
Science Daily

Was Beethoven's music literally heartfelt? Could a cardiac arrhythmia have influenced famous works by the musical great?

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

`Beethoven’ a musical look at composer’s lonely old age

Agnieszka Holland’s “Copying Beethoven”–a bio-drama on the great composer and musical hero Ludwig van Beethoven–is a movie with some flaws but also with moments of beauty and intensity most other ...
NPR

Benedict And Beethoven: The Outgoing Pope's Musical Life

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 ...