Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San ...

As Beethoven set about composing his Third Symphony, his hearing was failing and he felt certain his life was about to get worse. That it was born in a moment of despair may help explain why the ...

So the master pianist and composer Carl Czerny claimed one patron pleaded during the work’s 1805 premiere. Beethoven scholar Jan Swafford suggests that perhaps this music-lover wasn’t suffering so ...

The WandaVision Spin-Off Boasts an Enchanting Kathryn Hahn and a New Mystery. Hahn stars as ...