Portrait Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis', 1820.

Beethoven’s unfinished tenth symphony to be completed by artificial intelligence

Gloucester Cathedral

Brexiteer threatens to boycott Three Choirs Festival over EU anthem ‘Ode to Joy’

Brexiteers turn their backs on the EU anthem

Brexit Party MEPs turn their backs on Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ in protest against EU

America's Got Talent guitarist Marcin

AGT guitarist stuns judges with solo guitar arrangement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven composer's hair auctioned at Sotheby's

A lock of Beethoven’s hair has just been sold at auction – and it went for a whopping £35,000
Beethoven is more popular than Mozart

Beethoven beats Mozart to the top spot as the most popular Classic FM composer of 2019

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Alice Sara Ott Beethoven

Current obsession: this descending scale in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1

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Crescendo asset

We reckon this is the all-time greatest crescendo in classical music (there will be goosebumps)
Beethoven and Elisabeth Röckel

What is the meaning of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ – and who was Elise?

Beethoven Pictures

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San Quentin Prison interior

10 of the greatest composers who broke the law

Beethoven composer letters

Letters of the great composers: 14 moving, funny and inspiring quotations from the documents they left behind

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Anna-Maria Mozart mother

Famous composers' mothers

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Beethoven Album Reviews

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new releases 30th july

New releases: Irnberger and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven and Rachmaninov with Martin Jones
new releases 1st may

New releases: Beethoven with the Royal Northern Sinfonia & Lars Vogt and 'Strauss in St Petersburg'
new releases 10th april

New releases: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Brahms and Beethoven with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Beethoven Guides

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John Lennon inspired by Beethoven

This John Lennon song is based on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven

So if Beethoven was completely deaf, how did he compose?

Beethoven in Havana

Someone has turned this Beethoven symphony into an extraordinary Cuban rumba