Nicholas Kitchen, the Borromeo Quartet's first violinist, shares his thoughts about Beethoven's "Great Fugue." The members of the Borromeo Quartet are regular visitors to WGBH. To hear and see them ...

In 1826, a year before he died, Beethoven did something so unfathomable that it ranks as one of the greatest mysteries in his story: he made a compromise. His publisher, concerned by the response to ...

Beethoven was sitting in a bar after the 1826 premiere of his String Quartet No. 13 when some buddies sat down next to him. The final movement, the Fuge, was a little hard to digest, they told the ...

With the Edinburgh International Festival’s survey of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas well passed now, the Beethoven baton passes to Glasgow for the final instalment of the city’s three-year focus on the ...

Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": I. Allegro Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-Flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier": II. Scherzo. Assai vivace Piano ...

Beethoven “message to the future” to be communicated tonight at UB when Dover Quartet performs third concert in the Slee Cycle. The UB Music Department presents the award-winning Dover Quartet tonight ...

Three well-known choreographers of contemporary dance take a stab at Beethoven's "Great Fugue" in a fascinating experiment by the Lyon Opera. Can one listen to the same piece three times in succession ...

The Great Fugue is one of Beethoven’s late works – full of despair but also enthusiasm. Now Lyon’s Opera ballet is performing the latest interpretation of the German composer’s classic with the help ...

Australian Chamber Orchestra and Richard Tognetti showcase two works of genius by Beethoven and Bach. Recorded live in concert, these seminal works are given a new lease of life, opening up new ...

LONDON — A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby’s auctioneers said. Sotheby’s described the manuscript, discovered in a ...

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