Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...

On March 27, 1827, the day after Ludwig van Beethoven's death, his associates uncovered a hidden trove of documents in his desk. Among them was the Heiligenstadt Testament, a letter written in 1802 to ...

On a day in March like today, but in 1827, Ludwig van Beethoven died after a long illness that left him bedridden for several months. A quarter of a century earlier, the musician w ...

An annual festival celebrating the music of Ludwig van Beethoven has opened in Warsaw. T he Ludwig van Beethoven Easter ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No. 5 ...

Yes, this is the lowest grossing weekend of 2025 to date, but not for opera, as the specialty market found its maestro, Ludwig van Beethoven. The Met: Live in HD transmission of Beethoven’s ...

One of the more unlikely pairings in this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival is that of Ludwig van Beethoven and manga. The composer, born in 1770, and Japanese graphic novels, popular since the ...

"Ludwig Van” is high on fun, an early contender for your earworm of 2024. It is an homage to classical music and the sheer exuberance of new artistic discovery, with Atticus Roness rewriting the rules ...

Ludwig van Beethoven. As he’s creating a puzzle and about to make his Sunday pasta dinner when he gets a call from his sister-in-law, Lucy Betts-Taylor (Anna Maxwell Martin). Lucy grew up with ...

One of the world’s most influential composers, Ludwig van Beethoven changed the course of Western music. Despite losing his hearing, he created some of history’s most celebrated works ...