Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Symphony No. 9 was the pinnacle of Beethoven's remarkable career. Boston Public Library/Flickr, CC BY In early 1824, 30 members of ...

The Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra opens its 76th season Saturday, September 26th with Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, a work widely regarded as a turning point in classical music history.

Ludwig van Beethoven first performed his Ninth Symphony in Vienna in 1824, and created a work for the ages. We look at what makes it so special. Ludwig van Beethoven had his hands full before the ...

Beethoven’s Third Symphony, the “Eroica” is the featured work on Clinton Symphony Orchestra’s 73rd season opener. The concert ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

BRISTOL/KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – Symphony of the Mountains is getting ready to open its 80th anniversary season with “Beethoven and Beginnings” in two concert venues. Eighty years ago, Symphony of ...

It's one of the shortest, weirdest, but most compelling symphonies of the 19th century. One of the most important things about Beethoven's Eighth Symphony is that it puts a definitive kibosh on the ...

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...