I’m not used to hearing the Boston Symphony Orchestra play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 indoors. These days, when the BSO plays ...

The American Classical Orchestra announced its 42nd season, featuring Beethoven symphonies, an all-Bach choral program, and ...

The Beethoven Center at San Jose State University, boasting the world's second-largest collection of items related to the ...

Was 'Für Elise' actually a 19th-century 'U up? text? We’re untangling the web of secret singers and broken hearts behind the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Two hundred years ago this week, Beethoven conducted his final symphony. He died three years later, and the cause has been relatively unknown... until now. Who knew that a ...

A genetic study conducted on locks of Ludwig van Beethoven's hair revealed more details about the composer's death at a relatively young age in March 1827. The University of Cambridge biological ...

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 ...

DNA from strands of Beethoven’s hair is helping to uncover what may have caused his death, researchers say. The composer was plagued with health issues for most of his life. On March 26, 1827, he ...