During the composition of his Second Symphony, Beethoven was much different from the man who would come to epitomize the Romantic artist. For the first time, he had disclosed his secret of ...

(CBS 11) - I have had a love affair with classical music since 1965 when I started taking piano lessons in Dallas as a kid. From 1965-1972, I had anywhere between one and two lessons per week and came ...

A portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Willibrord Mähler, a friend of the composer, painted during 1804-1805. Composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770, and so it's little surprise that 250 years ...

'There’s no denying his clarity: fingerwork is immaculate (passagework, trills and tremolos are unfailingly neat) and textures are lucid' Beethoven Piano Sonatas – No 30 in E, Op 109; No 31 in A flat, ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Handel and Haydn Society have been sharing the stage at Symphony Hall ever since the earliest days, when H+H performed Mendelssohn’s oratorio “Elijah” just six ...

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