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 ...

The opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony are iconic, but Alexander Shelley promises that the piece has much more in store. The next artistic and music director of the Pacific Symphony returns ...

With music director Fabio Luisi conducting, concertmaster Alexander Kerr performs with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center on Feb. 6, 2025. Sylvia Elzafon / Dallas Symphony ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spotlight: Cascade Symphony Orchestra opens 2026 with ‘Beethoven’s Fifth’ Monday, Jan. 12, 7:30 p.m.
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If asked to name my three favorite sounds, I’d choose waves crashing against the rocky shoreline of Lake Superior, wind blowing through a boreal forest, and the section of the finale of Beethoven’s ...

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An experiment in Brazil compared the effects of exposing breast cancer cells in culture to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D, and Ligeti's "Atmosphères." The experiment ...

The Spokane Symphony will conclude 2025 and ring in the New Year with Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9.