Or rather, that’s long been the popular read among those in power, especially the wealthy white men who embraced Beethoven and turned his symphony into a symbol of their superiority and importance.

The UK’s leading scholar on Beethoven has found that the famous opening of the Fifth Symphony began life with a totally different purpose... Classical connoisseur, and music novice alike will ...

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony traces a journey that the composer described as moving “from struggle to victory.” The work starts with a famously anguished opening melody and ends with a major-key tutti ...

Gerard Schwarz is back, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra is entrusting him with four of the biggest notes in musical history. Hartford Symphony audiences got a taste of Schwarz’s musical mindset ...

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 ...

Learn why the Philadelphia Orchestra had to cut Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony from their program and replace it with his Sixth. Tan Dun on Preserving the Nu Shu Language Composer Tan Dun explores the ...

Although the Fifth Symphony is considered one of Beethoven's greatest musical works, at the time of its premiere the composer's contemporaries were still smitten with his Third Symphony (the "Eroica") ...

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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — with its famous, jolting first four-notes — broke expressive ground and overturned many of the formal concepts on which the classical symphony had been based. The scoring ...