Guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and pianist Daniil Trifonov led an intense yet rewarding program of Austro-Germanic classics.

That’s what Johnny Galvatron, the creative director of Beethoven & Dinosaur’s Mixtape, said when I told him I had been listening to his old band’s music. Before making video games, Galvatron was the ...

Gustavo Dudamel begins a Beethoven-centric L.A. Phil month finding currency in 'Egmont,' featuring Cate Blanchett and a new text by Jeremy O. Harris ...

Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended problems.

Vonsattel takes centerstage to perform Beethoven’s celebrated Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 “Pathetique,” and the ...

Scientists have confirmed that Ludwig van Beethoven had lead poisoning, but it did not contribute to his untimely death. To this day, nobody knows for certain what caused the liver and kidney disease ...

New research published in the journal Current Biology uses DNA sequencing to uncover that the great composer did not die from lead poisoning after all... In 1802, at the age of just 32, Ludwig van ...

Despite his status as one of history's great composers, Beethoven is also remembered for his surly disposition and unkempt appearance. 'He was indeed irritable, untidy, clumsy, rude, and misanthropic, ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is just as famous for his music — and his hair — in death as he was in life. Beethoven died 196 years ago, almost to the day, at the age of 56 A team of scientists sequenced his ...

From The Nanny to Beethoven, Nicholle Tom’s glow-up 34 years later proves the former kid star still knows how to steal the ...

Gustavo Dudamel, Blanchett and Harris sit down to discuss their new version of Beethoven’s classic, premiering in Los Angeles ...