In a little-trafficked corner of the Web, a pair of classical music enthusiasts has spent half a decade obsessively re-creating hundreds of obscure pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven. Mark Zimmer, a tax ...

EPFL researchers are investigating Beethoven's composition style using statistical techniques to quantify and explore the patterns that characterize musical structures in the Western classical ...

Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul Watkins has ...

Freedom in Beethoven’s music takes many, frequently overlapping forms. There is heroic freedom in the Eroica (1803), freedom from political oppression in the Egmont Overture (1810), artistic freedom ...

One of music history’s most haunting images is also one of its most revealing: Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly deaf, still bent over a score, still filling page after page with ideas that would outlive ...