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 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 ...

Among Ludwig van Beethoven’s prodigious gifts was an ability to transform the most mundane materials into something exquisite. Perhaps the most famous example of this is his “Diabelli Variations,” Op.

WASHINGTON -- Edmund Morris has finally written a biography that's (1) not about a Republican president and (2) fewer than 784 pages. Morris -- the author of "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan," "The ...

The Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1811 and 1812. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) was a seminal German composer. He had ...

It’s an ode to DNA. A new study sheds light on how Ludwig van Beethoven died almost 200 years ago — a puzzle that many have been interested in solving. Using five strands of the German composer’s hair ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is one of the most acclaimed pianists and classical composers of all time. Nearly two centuries after his death in 1827, Beethoven's legacy transcends time and space. His music is ...

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 ...

How many shows has Ludwig van Beethoven written? Ludwig van Beethoven has written 2 shows including Beethoven, As I Knew Him (Composer), 33 Variations (Composer).