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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 | Critic’s Notebook John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument survey at Carnegie Hall was a reintroduction to some of the world’s most ...

With his First Symphony Beethoven staked his claim as a rightful heir to the Classical symphonic tradition. After its premiere, at a typically gargantuan benefit concert in Vienna’s Burgtheater on 2 ...