Award-winning classical music broadcaster Sir Humphrey Burton has died at the age of 94. He presented the BBC's Omnibus and ...

Award-winning classical music broadcaster Sir Humphrey Burton has died at the age of 94. He presented the BBC's Omnibus and ...

After a successful concert in 1814, Beethoven was out for a walk on the Kahlenberg above Vienna when he met two young girls who gave him some cherries. His offer to pay was declined by one of them ...

THAYER’S LIFE OF BEETHOVEN edited by Elliot Forbes. 1 volumes, 1,136 pages. Princeton. $25. It was Richard Wagner who called Beethoven “a world walking among men.” The world was, of course, his music, ...

Almost two centuries after Beethoven's death, scientists say they've finally cracked the case of what the famously cranky composer really looked like. Credit: Cicero Moraes/Pen News Turns out ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. As a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all ...

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When ARTE Germany CEO Wolfgang Bergmann approached Toronto director Larry Weinstein in January 2023 about making a documentary to mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Some of London’s most eminent antiquarians can be found on Cecil Court, a 17th-century lane just off the ...

Anton Bruckner (Ansfelden, 1824–Vienna, 1896) was the greatest symphonist after Beethoven, Herbert Blomstedt boldly states in his foreword to Felix Diergarten’s biography Anton Bruckner. Ein Leben mit ...