Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was an ...

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 ...

Trans-traditional work is important for our development.” In celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the Goethe-Institut is paying tribute to the work of the world-famous composer and ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about happiness and music but didn’t mention perhaps the most famously joyful work ever written: ...

Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Elias Gottlob Haussmann, 1746; Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820. Regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, Bach’s works will be ...