What makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Researchers have completed a first analysis of Beethoven's writing style, applying statistical techniques to unlock recurring patterns. EPFL researchers are ...

Is there ever a justification needed to perform Beethoven’s 9th, one of the most beloved and widely known pieces of music ...

Catastrophic Theatre has a hunch you'll enjoy its latest outing. "The Hunchback Variations" - starring none other than Quasimodo, Victor Hugo's immortal bell-ringer of Notre Dame - makes its Houston ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s “Beethoven Unbound” series with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, now nearing its end, has been pretty much Beethoven Unchallenged. Embedded in programs with the nine symphonies has ...

"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well ...

Roll over, Beethoven, the data scientists are here. What is it that makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Fans of his music can recognize his style, and music theorists have thoroughly studied his ...

Although cultural life in various Nazi-occupied countries manifested distinctive differences in outlook between 1939 and 1945, partially accountable to specific national traditions and their ...

2020 marks the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Symphony No. 6 saw the composer set his romantic perception of nature to music. The ‘Pastorale’ is the starting point for the ...