For years now, it has been speculated that music can in fact heal people. While there is no doubt that listening to music can ...

An experiment in Brazil compared the effects of exposing breast cancer cells in culture to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D, and Ligeti's "Atmosphères." The experiment ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

Director Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra concluded their Midwest tour on Saturday night with performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 at Symphony Center.

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, was the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep, marking an anniversary. Two hundred years ago today ...