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 ...

The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” But the very ...

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The Beethoven 9 as we explore the world of Beethoven through the lens of his symphonies with renowned classical biographer Jan Swafford. Each month is dedicated to a different symphony. Each week ...

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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — with its famous, jolting first four-notes — broke expressive ground and overturned many of the formal concepts on which the classical symphony had been based. The scoring ...

The three Gs and the E-flat that begin Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony may be the four most recognizable notes in all of music history. On Saturday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m., Maestro Kevin Rhodes and the ...

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s May 3 to 5 Masterworks Concert featured the standout performance of the season: a collaboration with guest artists Time for Three on Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4-3.