He’s the towering musical genius who didn’t let his deafness prevent him from becoming one of the world’s greatest composers. Ludwig van Beethoven may have been born 250 years ago, but his story of ...

When Chuck Berry first sang “Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news!” in 1956, he was trumpeting the rise of rock ‘n’ roll and, perhaps, forecasting the decline of classical music. Sixty-four ...

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 ...

Beethoven lived in a time of revolution. The American Revolution began just after he was born and the French Revolution ignited when he was a coming-of-age 18-year-old. Colors are something we see and ...

Agnieszka Holland’s “Copying Beethoven”–a bio-drama on the great composer and musical hero Ludwig van Beethoven–is a movie with some flaws but also with moments of beauty and intensity most other ...

Although cultural life in various Nazi-occupied countries manifested distinctive differences in outlook between 1939 and 1945, partially accountable to specific national traditions and their ...