The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

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 ...

The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” But the very ...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — with its famous, jolting first four-notes — broke expressive ground and overturned many of the formal concepts on which the classical symphony had been based. The scoring ...

A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

THE FIRST FOUR NOTES: BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH AND THE HUMAN IMAGINATION By Matthew Guerrieri Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 368 pages Da-da-da-daaa! Who does not know the first four notes of Beethoven’s Fifth ...

BOSTON - The Empire State Building. The Grand Canyon. The Eiffel Tower. What can you say or write about such iconic landmarks that hasn't already been said? That's what I was thinking Tuesday night ...

The three Gs and the E-flat that begin Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony may be the four most recognizable notes in all of music history. On Saturday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m., Maestro Kevin Rhodes and the ...

2020 is here and along with it, the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest geniuses and humanists the world has ever known. When many people hear the name ...

Conductor John Eliot Gardiner and author Matthew Guerrieri explain the incredible resonances, past and present, behind one of the most famous... A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, ...