Beethoven, Ludwig van
Manfred Honeck, a leading Beethoven conductor, guides us through the beginning of the end of the mighty Ninth Symphony. Source
Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. Source
Brahms, Wagner, even Sondheim: All have followed the great master in building their works from small bits of music. Source
Explore the music, life and times of the composer who changed culture. Source
Listen to the best of the stormy, tender work of the composer who changed music. Source
George Bridgetower, the original dedicatee of the “Kreutzer” Sonata, was a charismatic prodigy but faded into history. Source
Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. Source
Michael Tilson Thomas’s long tenure leading the San Francisco Symphony has ended, with less fanfare than expected. Source
A coming novel tells the story of the piano student who was the dedicatee of one of classical music’s most famous works. Source
Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” Source
