It's from earlier in Beethoven's life and isn't quite as epic, but it's full of great tunes and interesting developments. It's also worth noting that when Beethoven himself premiered the piece in 1803 ...

In 1804, four years before the Fifth Symphony’s first performance, Beethoven wrote out the sketches of the opening theme of his next symphony. Scholars have used this manuscript as a source of ...

The sheet music for the work appears in our Spring 2025 issue. Jeremy Nicholas introduces a piano transcription of Haydn’s Largo cantabile from Symphony No 93 by ... two Beethoven symphony movements, ...

But, unlike some of Beethoven’s radical early piano sonatas, the First Symphony, in the ceremonial, trumpet-and-drum key of C major, contained little to alarm an audience who by 1800 had ...

Ronald Brautigam’s first recording of Beethoven’s piano concertos, a collaboration with Andrew Parrott and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, appeared in 2008 10. Included were Brautigam’s ...

Batiste blends Beethoven’s most familiar compositions, like “Für Elise” and the Fifth Symphony, with improvised jazz, blues and funk, finding “soul” in the composer’s work.

What do you need to know about the set piece Symphony No. 1 Movement 1? Find out the answer and many more facts about Beethoven with this AQA GCSE Music revision guide.

A rare manuscript belonging to composer Ludwig van Beethoven has sold for $100,000 (£67,000) at an auction. The handwritten piece of sheet music known as ‘King Stephen’ was recently ...