In it there is also an old-fashioned upright piano, stacks of music which M. Herriot likes to play. Published for the first time in English last week was a Herriot book on Beethoven, the composer ...

On Thursday evening, the BSO and music director Andris Nelsons launched the central series of concerts of the Beethoven and ...

Beethoven was famously a great improviser. What do you think he would have made of the reverence with which his music is most ...

Considered as ahead of his time in his music, Beethoven appears to have been modern in his taste in hot beverages too. He liked his coffee and he liked it strong, starting every day by counting ...