Starting at the end, Georgia and Henry look at the report of Beethoven's post-mortem, carried out by Dr. Johannes Wagner in Vienna on the day after Beethoven died, 27th March, 1827. It makes grim ...

Documentary series that tells the life story of Beethoven in the context of the composer's own time and place, revealing a life following a very different trajectory to his art.

“Roll over Beethoven,” he hollered, “and tell Tchaikovsky the news!” Rock’n’roll is here to stay, Berry was saying – classical music’s deader than my duck-walk. Berry’s words and ...

Heidrun Irene Mittermair, an alto in the Vienna Singverein Choir, says that Beethoven's Ninth is a “wonderful message of love” Vienna is hosting a series of performances of Ludwig van ...

Marking the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 1770, this documentary series focuses on the real, complex and often difficult man behind the great composer. Groomed for greatness by an ...

In his thrilling 1956 call to arms, Chuck Berry pictured classical music’s colossus spinning in his grave as the age of rock’n’roll dawned. “Roll over Beethoven,” he hollered, “and tell Tchaikovsky ...

Yet music scholarship has traditionally paid little attention to ballroom dance music before the era of the Strauss dynasty, with the exception of a handful of dances by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Arranged as a chamber orchestra — a smaller ensemble harking back to those of Beethoven's day — the musicians treated each of these concertos almost as symphonies, so closely did they engage ...

Germany's top classical music prize, the Opus Klassik, goes to a recording of Joseph Haydn's music by the Deutsche ...

Recommended Videos Titled “Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1)," across 11 tracks, Batiste collaborates, in a way, with Beethoven, reimagining the German pianist's instantly ...

Only three of the composer’s pieces appeared in the programs, amid works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven ... had improvised two mini-cadenzas in the Minuet, yet he’d seemed hesitant about them.