Classical music organizations around the world began a major anniversary celebration this fall for Ludwig van Beethoven, born almost 250 years ago in December 1770. The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, the ...

Ensembles, universities and arts organizations around the world spent the past few years planning concerts and scholarly events throughout 2020 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van ...

__1770: __Ludwig van Beethoven is born to a family of musicians in Bonn, Germany. His Ninth Symphony will play a role in determining the length of the music CD. Exactly how big a role is a matter of ...

Augustin Hadelich is steeped in the repertoire of classical violin concertos and travels the globe to perform them with the world's major orchestras. The cosmopolitan violinist — born in Italy to ...

A concert in memory of the 238th anniversary of Beethoven's birth was held at the Beethoven Center in the old town of Austrian capital Vienna on Sunday evening. During the concert, artists from ...

Turns out Beethoven didn’t just sound intense — he looked it, too. Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, scientists say they’ve finally pieced together what the famously moody maestro ...

Nestled in the middle of all of it was Yunchan Lim, the mop-haired 21-year-old who made history three years ago as the Van ...

A full orchestra and choir sit on the stage of Woolsey Hall. Of the 150 performers, only the pianist moves to break the silence. An ominous first note blossoms into an intense improvisatory passage ...

Sheremetyevo International Airport will join a series of international events in December 2020 dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. On ...

Two-hundred fifty years ago a boy was baptized in the church of St. Remigius in Bonn. It is speculated (and he himself maintained) that he had been born the day before this, but history has not taken ...

All throughout this new year, in Boston and around the world, music lovers will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Ludwig von Beethoven. Many of his most famous works, like ...