Darkness to Light. Where: 12 Miles West Theatre Company, 33 Green Village Road, Madison. When: Through June 8. Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m. How much: $26. Call (973) ...

“What Beethoven wanted from pianos, as he wanted from everything, was more: more robust build, more fullness of sound, a bigger range of volume, a wider range of notes. As soon as new notes were added ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This week-long musical journey will explore the genius of some of Beethoven's ...

Let’s hear from you: Add your comments on the Spokane Symphony's weekend performances to this story. The Spokane Symphony staged a Beethoven mini-festival over the weekend with two excellent concerts ...

Music lovers who are familiar with Jan Swafford’s earlier biographies of Brahms and Charles Ives will need no further incitement to read this mammoth but compelling biography of a composer arguably ...

His parents die and Beethoven receives lessons from Mozart and Haydn. • Contact with the wealthy von Breuning family brings Ludwig an emotional and intellectual solace he never had at home. He begins ...

This period sees Beethoven reaching into his soul for stunning results. • Beethoven makes his last appearance as a pianist in an 1814 performance of the Archduke Trio; one observer notes "there was ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was and still is boxed into early, middle, and late periods; the last three of his violin-and-piano sonatas, taken together, fairly race through those checkpoints. The ...