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 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 ...

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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 ...

It's one of the most famous musical passages ever written. Ludwig van Beethoven starts his Fifth Symphony with four percussive notes, then spends the next four movements inventing new ways to make ...

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The three Gs and the E-flat that begin Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony may be the four most recognizable notes in all of music history. On Saturday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m., Maestro Kevin Rhodes and the ...

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

It has been over a month since the Topeka Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 75th anniversary season with its first concert at the Topeka Performing Arts Center, and after a successful performance, the ...

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s May 3 to 5 Masterworks Concert featured the standout performance of the season: a collaboration with guest artists Time for Three on Jennifer Higdon’s Concerto 4-3.