This week, Classical Live presents exclusive live recordings from some of the best youth orchestras in Europe; we’ll also ...

Beethoven's Choral Symphony No. 9 in D minor has once again topped the ABC Classic 100, being chosen as Australia's greatest piece of classical music of all time. Every year since 2001, ABC Classic ...

Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien, on period instruments, offer zest-filled and elegant readings of four Beethoven sonatas Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien get their ...

The discovery of a love letter revealed the depths of Beethoven’s yearning for his "immortal beloved." Scholars have been piecing together clues to her identity ever since. Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t ...

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 ...

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'Batiste takes a phrase of Beethoven, and answers and contrasts it with a minor, bluesy jazz phrase of his own' Into this fray steps an American musical celebrity, New Orleans-born Jon Batiste, 38 ...

On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the ...

Last year, researchers sequenced the genome of famed composer Ludwig van Beethoven for the first time, based on authenticated locks of hair. The same team has now analyzed two of the locks for toxic ...

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