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 ...

Beethoven might have been a little schizo about his scherzo. One of the innovations the composer brought to his symphonies was sudden changes of mood that were first thought to be overly aggressive, ...

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He was the definition of a tortured genius, battling deafness to compose symphonies he could not properly hear. And unlucky Beethoven appears to have also had hepatitis B and a genetic risk of liver ...

In one of the most iconic musical moments of recent history, Leonard Bernstein led a performance of the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, with musicians ...