Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Our chief classical critic took on the daunting Opus 110 in college, and now relishes risky recordings. By Anthony Tommasini For my ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

With even his stern face and wild artist's hair as iconic as his music, it’s not easy to remember that Ludwig van Beethoven was once a struggling up-and-comer. But at the end of the 18 th century and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Beethoven at 250 Pierre-Laurent Aimard juxtaposes the master with other troublemaking composers “so that we understand better what Beethoven meant.” ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

The timing was unfortunate for Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday celebration. Commemorations of the fêted composer came in 2020 (scholars’ best guess at his birthday is 1770), just as the world ...

Record-keeping was imperfect in 18th-century Germany, so history does not have an exact date of birth for classical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, now probably best loved for his contributions to the ...

It is the artistic human-interest story to end them all. The most famous "Classical" composer spent the better part of his late composing period almost completely deaf, in the process completing a ...

Besides being a Cabinet Minister, a Deputy, a party chief and Mayor of Lyon, Edouard Herriot, thrice Premier of France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, ...