"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well ...

“O friends, not this music! Let us strike up something more pleasant and more joyful!” Welcoming 2017 with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Each year, orchestras across the world perform Beethoven’s ...

When we finally see the return of concerts, shared experiences by full audiences, everyone together, the moment will be less for fireworks than for thanksgiving. Let us begin, then, with Beethoven as ...

Swafford, who is also a composer, wrote Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, a 1000-page biography of Beethoven that scrubs some of the myth off the composer. The book shows Beethoven as a fairly regular ...

Last summer, the meme “Beethoven was Black” was trending online, a trope that drew the iconic composer into a 21st century discussion about race and social justice. But there is another curious ...

All throughout this new year, in Boston and around the world, music lovers will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of composer Ludwig von Beethoven. Many of his most famous works, like ...

David Dubal on the “Hammerklavier.” ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

NEW YORK (AP) — When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then “gigging in ...

Composer, conductor and producer Steve Hackman is breaking down barriers between the classical and pop music worlds, one orchestral reimagination at a time. And for the first time, the Chicago-area ...