Symphony No. 9 was the pinnacle of Beethoven's remarkable career. Boston Public Library/Flickr, CC BY In early 1824, 30 members of Vienna’s music community sent a letter to Ludwig van Beethoven ...

Are performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 cursed in Columbus? The German composer’s 1824 masterpiece is best-known for its magisterial “Ode to Joy” choral section, but in recent years, ...

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On this significant day in 1824, in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 premiered, marking a pivotal moment in musical history. Despite his profound deafness, Beethoven conducted the ...

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The New Mexico Philharmonic to perform “The Greatest: Beethoven’s 9th” on Saturday, Feb. 11. (Courtesy of the New Mexico Philharmonic) Beethoven's nearly 200-year-old Symphony No. 9 in D minor remains ...

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With no live performances possible this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yuba Sutter Oratorio Society will be re-broadcasting the 2015 performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 featuring the ...

Beethoven's epic Ninth Symphony has long been a traditional fan favorite at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Since 1997, it's ended every season but one at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in ...

Audio will be available later today. For his Ninth and final symphony, Beethoven wove the themes of the Enlightenment into his work. He finally saw a chance to use Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy" -- ...

Feb. 6—Beethoven's nearly 200-year-old Symphony No. 9 in D minor remains a landmark in the history of music as perhaps the most well-known classical work of all time. The New Mexico Philharmonic will ...

Last Friday night, the New York Philharmonic welcomed 2005 with a performance of the Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven. We drop in on that New Year's Eve performance at Avery Fisher Hall to hear the third ...