A new book, a new recording and some old instruments, all addressing the most memorable phrase in music: the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Matthew Guerrieri has written a book about this ...

Ludwig van Beethoven has long been considered one of the best composers that has ever lived. Now, on what would likely be his 245th birthday, Google is celebrating his life’s work with a new Doodle ...

A mysterious woman who seems to have fallen out of time collects Beethoven’s lost sheet music which has been scattered across Austria. She returns the pages to their rightful home in the collections ...

A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his Tenth Symphony before his death in 1827. Now, a team of musicologists and programmers is racing to ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Manfred Honeck, a leading Beethoven conductor, guides us through the beginning of the end of the mighty Ninth Symphony. Credit...Video by Ross Mantle For The New York Times ...