Does music have charms to soothe the savage beast? Or is there a savage beast in some of the greatest music itself? The biographical movie “Immortal Beloved” takes Ludwig van Beethoven, the matchless ...

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“What Beethoven wanted from pianos, as he wanted from everything, was more: more robust build, more fullness of sound, a bigger range of volume, a wider range of notes. As soon as new notes were added ...

The 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth finds an agreeable tribute in the German television film “Louis van Beethoven,” available now on VOD. That first name isn’t a typo: It’s the everyday moniker ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. As a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I watched Beethoven all the time growing up. Whether it was at home or at a friend's sleepover, I ...

Following Jan Swafford through the thousand-plus pages of his new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is hardly as exhilarating as listening to the music of the peerless composer. But the stately rhythm ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was and still is boxed into early, middle, and late periods; the last three of his violin-and-piano sonatas, taken together, fairly race through those checkpoints. The ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was certainly a true genius, but he had a extremely complex and difficult personality. Amazingly, he also lost his hearing fairly early in his career. Both of these unfortunate ...

Midnight Run and Beethoven actor Charles Grodin passed away at the age of 86 today, leaving a massive legacy of films, television, and plays behind him. The star was known for his work on screen, but ...