The Ulster Orchestra's highly anticipated Beethoven Festival is underway from tonight. The festival is in two parts (concluding February) and includes the nine symphonies plus some fine visiting ...
On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the ...
Beethoven left Bonn in late March and would have arrived in Vienna around the 8th of April. During his first visit to the imperial capital, Beethoven recalled being impressed upon catching sight of ...