Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Alexander gave this as an introduction to the piece: "In 1812, Beethoven's ...

You can’t repeat history. The Oregon Symphony's first performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony under its new music director Carlos Kalmar was a jolt of discovery – fast, loud and thrilling. So ...

Amateur musicians of all ages and levels are invited to join members of the Me2/Orchestra, conducted by Ronald Braunstein, in a stigma-free community play-along of Beethoven’s iconic 5th Symphony ...

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 ...

Beethoven, the wild-haired German composer, is ubiquitous during the fall symphony season. It makes sense, as his booming, blustery compositions have a lot in common with the darkening, windy autumn ...

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 ...