Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is quite simply the most famous piece of classical music ever written. The opening four notes, commonly referred to as “fate knocking at the door,” are easily recognizable ...

If asked to name my three favorite sounds, I’d choose waves crashing against the rocky shoreline of Lake Superior, wind blowing through a boreal forest, and the section of the finale of Beethoven’s ...

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 ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony and his equally popular Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” will have six performances at New Jersey Symphony. Beethoven composed these symphonies in tandem, and ...

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 ...

In his San Francisco Symphony debut, conductor John Storgårds brings subtlety and eloquence to Beethoven's Fifth.

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The rarity of live performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is explained in part by the work’s extraordinary demands on orchestra, soloists, and especially chorus, to say nothing of the interpretive ...

At his lecture prior to Saturday’s Spokane Symphony performance, Music Director and Conductor James Lowe was joined on the stage of the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox by Grant Erickson, CEO of ...