In 1800, when Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his First Symphony at the Burgtheater in central Vienna, there were those naysayers who wondered if there was any future in the symphony. Haydn had written ...

But this bold, iconoclast who broke free of musical reigns was smart enough to wait his turn to write a symphony. He moved to Vienna in 1792 to stake his musical ground, but Haydn and Mozart ...

With his First Symphony Beethoven staked his claim as a rightful heir to the Classical symphonic tradition. After its premiere, at a typically gargantuan benefit concert in Vienna’s Burgtheater on 2 ...

In this week's Feature Album, Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra present us with the first three symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven on ABC Classic. Thrilling live performances of ...

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 ...

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") ...

When Ludwig von Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, ...

Nestled in the middle of all of it was Yunchan Lim, the mop-haired 21-year-old who made history three years ago as the Van ...

Of all the nine symphonies, for me it is No 4 that is looking back a little bit to the earlier, Viennese, Classical style. It is more connected to the first two symphonies than to the Eroica. That’s ...

Composed in 1803, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (otherwise known as the 'Eroica') was very much written in the shadow of the two symphonic masters, Mozart and Haydn. Of all the works in the history of ...

Composed between 1804 and 1808, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is one of the most famous pieces by the composer - and in classical music as a whole. The opening of Ludwig Van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony ...