It may have been one of the stranger and more misguided enterprises in European music history. On a cold December night in 1808, an audience of mostly well-to-do patrons sat in an unheated Viennese ...

Transcript Alan Saunders: When did the modern world begin and who was the first modern person? Well, when it comes to the birth date of modernity, there are a lot of candidates and there are a lot of ...

If Beethoven was born in the 20th century... If you’ve ever wondered what Ludwig van Beethoven would look like if he lived a century or two later, wonder no more. One digital artist has lifted the ...

A few years ago, Jennifer Koh's mother became seriously ill, and for a time could speak to her daughter only in Korean. Koh, a violinist, was born in Illinois, and though she could understand Korean, ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Beethoven couldn't have known how trendy short words would be in the Twitter age, but his signature was already hashtag-compatible: "Bthvn" inspired the logo for the composer's upcoming 250th birthday ...

Ludwig von Beethoven was ready for the big time. He called his agent. “I want an album that is shipped platinum and hits the charts with a bullet,” said Beethoven. “No more snooty public radio ...

Rocker Bono is a modern day 'reincarnation' of classical composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, according to the editor of music magazine Gramophone. The latest issue of the British publication gives ...

Beethoven’s legendary Academy events presented new music for an audience that was hungry for novelty. Here, conductor François-Xavier Roth explains how he has been inspired by the spirit of these ...