Speaker 4: Okay, here are your tickets. Enjoy the show. Speaker 5: Your tickets, please. Follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall, a subway, a taxi, a ...

Beethoven dedicated his Piano Sonata No. 21 to his friend and patron Count Ferdinand von Waldstein. It’s considered one of his most technically challenging piano sonatas. Hear American pianist Garrick ...

A few years ago Leif Ove Andsnes revisited Beethoven's Piano Concertos on what he called his "Beethoven Journey." We'll hear the second step with his performance of the Concerto No. 2 during our music ...

In Vienna's Central Cemetery, there is a section devoted to the many composers, musicians and other important figures from Vienna's classical music heyday. Almost all of the luminaries buried there — ...

With even his stern face and wild artist's hair as iconic as his music, it’s not easy to remember that Ludwig van Beethoven was once a struggling up-and-comer. But at the end of the 18 th century and ...

Deveau and the Borromeo String Quartet perform piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven as chamber music on a new recording. Lloyd Schwartz says the album is "full of feeling and discovery." This is ...

Record-keeping was imperfect in 18th-century Germany, so history does not have an exact date of birth for classical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, now probably best loved for his contributions to the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In music, mystique can surround not just flashy divas and reclusive ...

I cannot imagine what a celestial-level bummer it must be to spend more than two centuries hovering around the ether, waiting for your big sestercentennial bash to pop off and take over the planet, ...

When Ludwig van 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, ...