In 1825, while recuperating from a near-death experience, Beethoven composed one of the most profound pieces of music in Western history. Andrea Valentino explores how The Holy Song of Thanksgiving ...

Discover the German and English text to one of the great anthems of all time, ‘Ode to Joy’ – the triumphant choral climax of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The German composer then set the text to a ...

Thumbing his nose at authority and whipping crowds into a frenzy, he changed music forever. Ludwig van Beethoven was often mistaken for a vagrant. With wads of yellow cotton stuffed in his ears, he ...

If not, please allow Richard Perlmutter to explain in song during his performance Saturday with his vocal group Beethoven's Wig. Though there won't be a symphony orchestra at the show, Perlmutter and ...

A rabble-rousing folk singer isn’t the first person who comes to mind when drafting new lyrics for one of the most recognized pieces of classical music in the world. But British singer Billy Bragg, ...