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

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

Beethoven's greatest works

Definitively the 20 greatest Beethoven works of all time

Beethoven and West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein borrowed a famous Beethoven melody for West Side Story’s most emotional scene

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Sir Keir Starmer chooses Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’, the EU Anthem, as music that sums up the Labour Party

Sir Keir Starmer says Beethoven’s choral anthem ‘Ode to Joy’ sums up the Labour party

Leonard Bernstein conducted a monumental Beethoven symphony to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.

When Leonard Bernstein conducted an ‘Ode to Freedom’ after the fall of the Berlin Wall

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The most memorable times classical music featured in the hit cartoon ‘Bluey’

‘Bluey’ soundtrack: the most memorable times classical music featured in the hit cartoon

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Beethoven, Mahler and Dvořák all died after writing their ninth symphonies

What is the Curse of the Ninth and does it really exist?

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Violinist Esther Abrami and pianist Khatia Buniatishvili – beautiful and moving pieces of classical music

10 most beautiful and moving pieces of classical music

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Steibelt and Beethoven dual

The pianist who dared to challenge Beethoven to a musical duel in Vienna – and his fate…

The greatest pieces of music for cello

These are factually the 15 best cello pieces in existence

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason plays Elgar Cello Concerto; Alison Balsom plays Haydn Trumpet Concerto; Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Williams Violin Concerto No.2

The 20 greatest concertos in classical music

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Fragile skull fragments, presumed to be Beethoven’s, returned to Vienna for study

Fragile skull fragments, presumed to be Beethoven’s, returned to Vienna for study

Billy Joel and Beethoven

Did you know Billy Joel’s ‘This Night’ uses the same melody as Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique?

Did you have ‘a work by Ludwig van Beethoven sung by Harrison Ford’ on your bingo card for the upcoming Indiana Jones film plot?

Why Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony makes a surprise appearance in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

The 20 best violin pieces ever written

The 20 best violin pieces ever written

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The Aurora Orchestra performing in Printworks London

Beethoven’s Symphony No.5 fills Printworks in Aurora Orchestra’s thrilling immersive concert

The Stumpff Lock in a laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.

Scientific analysis of Beethoven’s DNA reveals he had Hepatitis B and high risk of liver disease

20 of the greatest piano concertos of all time. Pictured (L-R): Arsha Kaviani, Mitsuko Uchida, Yuja Wang.

The 20 best piano concertos of all time

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