A COMMON saying of the Philistine is that music makes no appeal to the intellect : it neither deals with definite ideas, nor arrives at exact results ; it is clearly nothing but an amusement of the ...
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 ...
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is arguably the greatest piece of music ever composed. José Luis Gomez will go one step further: “This symphony seems to be included in the DNA of humanity,” the Tucson ...