During the composition of his Second Symphony, Beethoven was much different from the man who would come to epitomize the Romantic artist. For the first time, he had disclosed his secret of ...

The Second Symphony sets up some concepts the composer had already begun to think about in his early string quartets, in particular the Op 18 ones. His chamber music at this time – the piano sonatas, ...

In this week's Feature Album, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra present us with the first three symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven on ABC Classic. Thrilling live performances of ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ventured beyond the realm of practical applications and is making an impact in the world of art and music. An exemplary demonstration of this is the recent ...

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...

Over the next nine weeks, nine of the world's leading Beethoven conductors will each explore a Beethoven symphony. We begin with Sir Roger Norrington on Symphony No 1... The piece is dedicated to ...

Beethoven's symphony's form one of the most important bodies of work in musical history. The third, the fifth and the ninth get all the headlines and are generally the most well-loved, but the first ...

When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, ...

The working manuscript for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has sold for more than £2.1m at auction. Described as possibly the single most important musical work by the legendary composer, the document ...