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 ...

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 ...

Western Piedmont Symphony's 2024-2025 season continues with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on November 9, 2024. This concert showcases the iconic first four notes of Beethoven's work, ...

A statue of Beethoven gets a homemade mask in Bonn, Germany, where measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak are still in effect this month. (Getty Images) “He has … the power to make you feel at the ...

The Dallas Symphony and music director Jaap van Zweden indulge, this weekend, in the time-honored classical music programming tactic of matching a new, unfamiliar work with a standard box office cash ...

Mystery. Beauty, Virtuosity. Grandeur. That’s what the San Juan Symphony served Saturday night at the opening concert of the season. Music Director Arthur Post offered a program brimming with Romantic ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. New Jersey Symphony has revealed its 2025–26 season, Music Director Xian Zhang’s ...

A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...

Consciously or not, the management and artistic staff of the Houston Symphony couldn't have picked a better work than Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to kick off its 2008-09 season. Certainly they had ...

“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 ...