Sylvester James passed away, The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their first single, Mick Taylor revealed that he was ...

Beethoven might have been a little schizo about his scherzo. One of the innovations the composer brought to his symphonies was sudden changes of mood that were first thought to be overly aggressive, ...

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 ...

Each year, as the calendar winds to its close, the Seattle Symphony traditionally turns to Beethoven’s last symphony — the famous Ninth — to mark the end of one year and the arrival of the next. What ...

After almost 10 years of renovation, Bonn's Beethovenhalle is back to its former splendor. Opened in the late 1950s, it soon ...

In one of the most iconic musical moments of recent history, Leonard Bernstein led a performance of the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, with musicians ...