Life isn’t always puppies and kittens (she stated sagely). Sometimes, it can be downright tough – maybe your family is falling apart and you’re a famous composer and you’re going deaf. We’ve all been ...

Two musical forms dominated Beethoven’s mind and rounded every chapter of his life: the piano sonata was his vanguard. The string quartet was the ultimate expression. Beethoven’s five late quartets, ...

The evening began with a whiskey tasting and light snacks inside Green-Wood’s stunning Gothic chapel. Completed in 1913, the space—adorned with stained glass and soaring ceilings—set a reverent, ...

String Quartet No. 12 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Brentano Quartet String Quartet No. 14 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Brentano Quartet ...

A Late Quartet's centerpiece--Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131--can be a fool's errand. The marathon composition requires string musicians to play, without pauses, no fewer ...

As is often the case, music is very much on choreographer James Sewell's mind. Beethoven's "Opus 131" is a piece he's studied over the years since first setting movement to it in 1995 -- and he ...

I am pleased to see Beethoven’s chamber music and solo piano works getting attention as part of the Chicago Symphony’s Beethoven Festival. If two such concerts by rising young performers failed to ...