Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, including the "Ode to Joy," is one of the most popular works of all time. Here's what it ...

In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony (2013, streaming on Kanopy) also showcases how the Ninth inspired protestors in the 1989 democracy movement in Tiananmen Square and against the ...

It's one of the most unlikely moments in the history of entertainment. Two bespectacled 50-something English historians, Tom ...

A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra. In the early Classical period, symphonies usually had three movements, but by Beethoven's time, there were often four movements. Beethoven wrote ...

Even though Beethoven's finale features a text ... The majestic fourth movement of the Ninth Symphony is about 25 minutes long, a symphonic painting with a choir at the end -- and much too long ...

Ludwig van Beethoven debuted his Ninth Symphony ... The first sees the symphony split into its four movements. Each section starts with Rhiannon and actor and interpreter Thomas Simper enacting ...

Each music director conducted a movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which the orchestra will perform again Tuesday. Famed pianist/conductor Daniel Barenboim recently wrote that “The ...

The orchestra's opening weekend is not only going on as planned in the wake of Helene, but expanding to include an outdoor ...

Heidrun Irene Mittermair, an alto in the Vienna Singverein Choir, says that Beethoven's ... “It was a symphony, but with something new in the fourth movement. There was a choir on the stage ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer ... he partly drew from the harmonic structure of the second movement of Beethoven ...

Rice, John A. 2015. Review: The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory by Danuta Mirka. Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 68, Issue. 2, p. 446. BERTAGNOLLI ...