A first-ever mountain concert series featuring 32 pianists performing 32 piano sonatas is underway to celebrate the ...

SAN JOSE — Tristan Begg was an anthropology student at UC Santa Cruz and a Beethoven fanatic when he volunteered as a docent at San Jose State University’s Beethoven center in the summer of 2009. He ...

Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven died, a team of researchers has managed to sequence the German composer’s genome from locks of his hair, revealing surprising details of his health and ...

Ludwig van Beethoven lived a life of pain. His suffering was so great that in 1802 — while only in his early 30's — the classical composer and pianist penned a letter to his brothers describing how ...

For this weekend’s concerts by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, music director Stéphane Denève chose Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto with, for vivid contrast, Carlos ...

Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.

Ludwig van Beethoven, despite profound deafness, continued to compose masterpieces like the Ninth Symphony. He developed an inner musical model, relying on imagination, memory, and meticulous ...

SAN JOSE — Tristan Begg was an anthropology student at UC Santa Cruz and a Beethoven fanatic when he volunteered as a docent at San Jose State University’s Beethoven center in the summer of 2009. He ...