Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Symphony No. 9 was the pinnacle of Beethoven's remarkable career. Boston Public Library/Flickr, CC BY In early 1824, 30 members of ...

CHICAGO—In 1824, when Beethoven conducted the premier of his “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125,” the audience went wild with applause, giving the German composer five standing ovations when it ended ...

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which includes the magnificent "Ode to Joy," premiered on May 7, 1824. We recently passed its bicentennial. The Ninth was greeted as a masterpiece from the outset and ...

Ludwig van Beethoven first performed his Ninth Symphony in Vienna in 1824, and created a work for the ages. We look at what makes it so special. Ludwig van Beethoven had his hands full before the ...

Disability is often romanticised only after triumph arrives, but the world rarely acknowledges the quieter reality beneath it -- fatigue, alienation and bargains with one’s own body or circumstance, ...

Stephen Johnson explores themes of triumph and doubt in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, reflecting the turbulent times in which he lived. Quartet in A minor Op.132 for strings ...

It’s “Beethoven season.” The run-up to the new year has long been marked in Japan with performances of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 — known here simply as ”daiku” — gloriously performed by ...