The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” But the very ...

Take a musical journey to explore Ludwig van Beethoven's masterpiece 5th Symphony, with Conductor George Marriner Maull and The Discovery Orchestra. Discover Beethoven's 5th is available to stream on ...

Three shorts and a long. It’s the musical equivalent of E = mc2 : on the surface, a deceptively simple formula that yields previously unimaginable results — including many Ludwig van Beethoven himself ...

Ludwig van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5, perhaps the world's most famous musical composition, for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. Among other incredible ...

The leaves haven’t even changed, and the Chicago Symphony has already given us one of its can’t-miss billings of the season. On paper, this weekend’s cycle has two big draws. German baritone Christian ...

Consider the warhorses: those pieces of music that have seemingly permanently wedged their way into the standard kit of Western cultural literacy, repeated and reprogrammed as if by reflex. And ...