CLASSICAL HEIST: "It's kind of like Ocean’s 11," says The Beethoven 32 organizer Hwa-Jin Kim, pictured. "I had a lot of fun coming up with the title." Photo courtesy of Sonare Music Academy Movie ...
Turns out Beethoven didn’t just sound intense — he looked it, too. Nearly 200 years after Ludwig van Beethoven’s death, scientists say they’ve finally pieced together what the famously moody maestro ...
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 ...
Whitman Town Hall hosts a classical and Broadway concert April 26 by the Southeastern Philharmonic Orchestra.
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, ...
A Cameron University music professor spent six years getting inside the mind of one of history’s greatest composers.
One of Beethoven’s most famous piano sonatas features in Billy Joel’s 80s hit, ‘This Night’. It’s no revelation that Billy Joel is a pop genius on the piano – but it turns out he’s equally in-the-know ...
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony may not be his greatest. It's not even a favorite of the musicians who play it, and yet we treat it as the pinnacle of Beethoven's musical genius. It tops every popularity ...
A genetic study conducted on locks of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair revealed more details about the composer's death at a relatively young age in March 1827. The University of Cambridge biological ...
Sotheby’s in London sold ‘a substantial lock of the composer’s grey and dark brown hair’ for more than double the expected amount. A lock of Beethoven’s hair has been sold at Sotheby’s in London, ...
It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...