The Erie Philharmonic is kicking off its symphonic series this weekend. Get ready for an unforgettable night as the works of ...

Buffalo’s thriving cultural scene is perhaps the city’s best-kept secret, and the University at Buffalo, specifically the ...

JoAnn Falletta conducts the first of a two-weekend Beethoven festival, featuring the BPO’s Concert Master, violinist Nikki ...

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is preparing for its first ever Beethoven Festival, a multi-concert celebration ...

On Oct. 25, Andrew Crust will conduct his first Beethoven symphony since becoming the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s fifth ...

Beethoven’s aspirational vision of unity and peace can be applied to virtually any situation or place. The music makes sure of that. By Joshua Barone Even if you don’t know Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, ...

On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the ...

You probably recognize the opening to Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Those four insistent notes. There’s a symphony by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky that starts with the same driving intensity, so intense ...

If William Intriligator had to pick between naming Ludwig van Beethoven or Gustav Mahler as his all-time favorite composer, he’d have to go with Beethoven. But it’s not often that the conductor and ...

A hunt was on in New York last week for the kind of chair Beethoven used when he played the piano. It had to have short, strong legs to suit a heavy, stumpy little man like Beethoven, a comfortable ...

Turns out Beethoven didn’t just sound intense — he looked it, too. Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, scientists say they’ve finally pieced together what the famously moody maestro ...

For centuries, people have imagined Beethoven as the moody genius with wild hair and a stormy expression. Now, nearly 200 years after his death, we finally know what he may have truly looked like and ...