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A step-by-step guide to Beethoven’s nine symphonie

A step-by-step guide to Beethoven’s nine symphonies

Classic FM’s John Suchet to present Northern Sinfonia’s Big Beethoven weekend at Sage Gateshead

Classic FM partner orchestras gather at Sage Gateshead for Beethoven Symphonies marathon

John Suchet’s ‘Beethoven: The Man Revealed’ is available now on Amazon!

New edition of John Suchet’s ‘Beethoven: The Man Revealed’ released for Beethoven 250

Beethoven may not have been completely deaf, new research reveals

Beethoven ‘was not completely deaf’ at the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, musicologist reveals

André Rieu’s version of Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ is currently topping the iTunes singles chart

Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ tops UK singles download chart

Rachmaninov was more innovative than Beethoven, researchers say

Rachmaninov is the most innovative composer in 200 years, researchers reveal

Rachmaninov

Alicia Keys shouts out ‘old dude in a wig’ Beethoven in her Grammys piano medley

Alicia Keys gives a shout-out to Beethoven in her Grammys piano medley

John Suchet conducts Beethoven

Watch Classic FM’s John Suchet conduct a Beethoven symphony, for the very first time

Alice Sara Ott Beethoven

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

Discover Music

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

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

John Lennon inspired by Beethoven

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

Für Elise clock

This Beethoven piano alarm clock is charming, perplexing and annoying

John Suchet to present ‘Beethoven – The Man Revealed’ for 52 weeks to mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth.

Beethoven 250: Classic FM announces UK’s biggest radio series dedicated to the great composer

Lebanese protestors sing ‘Ode To Joy’ in Arabic

Lebanese protestors pause to sing Beethoven’s Ode to Joy in Arabic

Classic FM Experiences: Discover Beethoven and best of the Danube with Classic FM's John Suchet

Classic FM Experiences: Discover Beethoven and the best of the Danube with John Suchet

Events

Crescendo asset

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

Brass against Brexit

Professional brass players play ‘Ode to Joy’ outside UK parliament to protest Brexit

If Beethoven was from Baghdad...

If Beethoven was born in Palestine? This middle-eastern ‘Für Elise’ is too infectious for words