Nicholas Kitchen, the Borromeo Quartet's first violinist, shares his thoughts about Beethoven's "Great Fugue." The members of the Borromeo Quartet are regular visitors to WGBH. To hear and see them ...

Beethoven was sitting in a bar after the 1826 premiere of his String Quartet No. 13 when some buddies sat down next to him. The final movement, the Fuge, was a little hard to digest, they told the ...

Displayed to the public at the Palmer Theological Seminary for just one afternoon yesterday, the 80-page manuscript, dated 1826, is a seminal find for scholars of Beethoven and classical music.

UCSB Arts & Lectures presents the only West Coast appearance of France’s Lyon Opera Ballet, celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with “Trois Grandes Fugues,” showcasing three interpretations of his ...

With the Edinburgh International Festival’s survey of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas well passed now, the Beethoven baton passes to Glasgow for the final instalment of the city’s three-year focus on the ...

Beethoven’s incendiary and revolutionary Grosse Fuge forever changed music. The almost incomprehensible genius of his “Great Fugue” has powered every genre of music since—from classical to jazz, ...

Best of Beethoven: we explore Beethoven's top 21 must-hear masterpieces. Discover the great composers and works with BBC ...

Beethoven “message to the future” to be communicated tonight at UB when Dover Quartet performs third concert in the Slee Cycle. The UB Music Department presents the award-winning Dover Quartet tonight ...

LONDON — A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby’s auctioneers said. Sotheby’s described the manuscript, discovered in a ...

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