Roll over, Beethoven, the data scientists are here. What is it that makes Beethoven sound like Beethoven? Fans of his music can recognize his style, and music theorists have thoroughly studied his ...

EPFL researchers are investigating Beethoven's composition style and they are using statistical techniques to quantify and explore the patterns that characterize musical structures in the Western ...

If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

Beethoven wanted to get his first set of string quartets just right. He was in his 20s, and they sounded a bit like late Haydn's. And why wouldn't they? The classical master was Beethoven's teacher.

These works of Beethoven’s final years attain such a rarefied atmosphere of harmonic daring and structural density that most composers who followed him were at a loss to know what to make of them. It ...

For the last two years of his life, Beethoven's world was dark and silent. His health was completely shot. And his emotional state was worse. He'd failed in his relationship with his nephew Karl, and ...

Colorado has long been a haven for summer classical music festivals, with the Aspen Music Festival as the most prominent and established. True music aficionados are also well aware of how fortunate ...

The New Zealand String Quartet is playing a programme of Beethoven’s late string quartets at St Mary of the Angels Church in Wellington. It’s the culmination of BEETHOVEN!, a nationwide series ...