EditorialAndris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a Beethoven program at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., July 10, 2021, the orchestra’s first in-person performance since March 2020. (Jillian Freyer/The New York Times)
EditorialColoured Silhouette by Otto Boehler " Strauss is playing today", which shows Johann Strauss conducting in heaven, and angels and famous composers Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Liszt, Weber, Wagner, etc. waltzing to his tunes.
EditorialMembers of the White Hands Choir of Venezuela, which includes deaf and hard of hearing performers, during a rehearsal for a new production of Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio,” in Los Angeles, April 8, 2022. (Michael Tyrone Delaney/The New York Times)
EditorialTuning fork said to have been given by Ludwig van Beethoven to the violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower; n.d. The fork resonates at c. 455.4 Hertz. In a wooden box with walnut veneer, with a label in the hand of Gustav Holst pasted to the ...
EditorialTuning fork said to have been given by Ludwig van Beethoven to the violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower; n.d. The fork resonates at c. 455.4 Hertz. In a wooden box with walnut veneer, with a label in the hand of Gustav Holst pasted to the ...
EditorialTuning fork said to have been given by Ludwig van Beethoven to the violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower; n.d. The fork resonates at c. 455.4 Hertz. In a wooden box with walnut veneer, with a label in the hand of Gustav Holst pasted to the ...
EditorialTuning fork said to have been given by Ludwig van Beethoven to the violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower; n.d. The fork resonates at c. 455.4 Hertz. In a wooden box with walnut veneer, with a label in the hand of Gustav Holst pasted to the ...
EditorialTuning fork said to have been given by Ludwig van Beethoven to the violinist George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower; n.d. The fork resonates at c. 455.4 Hertz. In a wooden box with walnut veneer, with a label in the hand of Gustav Holst pasted to the ...
EditorialBernard Haitink conducts the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Mass., July 9, 2006. (Michael Lutch/The New York Times)
EditorialSpain. Catalonia. Barcelona. Lyric Theatre or Lyric Theatre Beethoven room. Founded in 1881. built by architect Salvador Sabate i Vinals. Mallorca Street, 277. Property Spanish financier and patron, Evaristo Arnus (1820-1890). Ancient hall and stage. A...
EditorialColoured Silhouette by Otto Boehler " Strauss is playing today", which shows Johann Strauss conducting in heaven, and angels and famous composers Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Liszt, Weber, Wagner, etc. waltzing to his tunes.
EditorialYannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in works by Valerie Coleman, Shostakovich, Bernstein, Iman Habibi and Beethoven at Carnegie Hall in New York on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialPianist Conor Hanick, left, and the tenor Paul Appleby in recital at the Park Avenue Armory in New York on Sept. 20, 2021. (Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times)
EditorialAndris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a Beethoven program at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., July 10, 2021, the orchestra’s first in-person performance since March 2020. (Jillian Freyer/The New York Times)
EditorialLouisa Proske, one of the founders and artistic directors of Heartbeat Opera, left, works with singers Kelly Griffin, center and Claire Leyden during a sound check for “The Extincionist,” in Chatham, N.Y., May 25, 2021. (Amanda Picotte/The New York Times)
EditorialManfred Honeck, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s music director, outside the ensemble’s Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh on Feb. 9, 2021. (Ross Mantle/The New York Times)
EditorialForget that famous portrait of Beethoven, scowling with arched eyebrows and Medusa hair. For all its anguish, his music teems with hope. (Angie Wang/The New York Times)
EditorialGrace de Oliveira, 66, plays a Late Beethoven Piano Sonata in her apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of Throggs Neck, Dec. 3, 2020. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
EditorialForget that famous portrait of Beethoven, scowling with arched eyebrows and Medusa hair. For all its anguish, his music teems with hope. (Angie Wang/The New York Times)
EditorialThe " Beethoven Frieze" painted for the 1902 exhibition of Vienna Artists' Association " Secession". The end of the frieze illustrates the final chorus of the Ninth Symphony " Freude, schoener Goetterfunken". Detail of 40-...
EditorialSpain. Catalonia. Barcelona. Lyric Theatre or Lyric Theatre Beethoven room. Founded in 1881. built by architect Salvador Sabate i Vinals. Mallorca Street, 277. Property Spanish financier and patron, Evaristo Arnus (1820-1890). Ancient hall and stage. A...
EditorialA view of the Theater an der Wien, where Beethoven premiered his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, in Vienna on Feb. 7, 2020. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)