Colorado pianist Katie Mahan at the Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg, Austria. The young Ludwig van Beethoven had every intention of studying with Mozart. In 1787, when Beethoven was 16, he traveled to ...

If one’s influence on the future can be taken as a measure of one’s greatness, a new study has added to Beethoven’s credentials as a great composer: Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science ...

The Mainly Mozart Festival is in full flight. This year’s proceedings started on Thursday, June 15, and have gone from strength, to strength, to strength, to sublime. The first concert saw LA ...

1 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights Each year Mainly Mozart brings concertmasters and principal players to San Diego from the major symphony orchestras of Cleveland, ...

Interestingly, my two favorite concerts, thus far in the 2024-2025 Jacobs Master Works Series at the San Diego Symphony, have been dominated by pieces from the classical period of music. Obviously, ...

On March 21 and 22, Boston Baroque presented a program of Mozart’s “Symphony No. 35 in D Major (“Haffner”),” two Mozart arias performed by soprano Erin Morley, and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 2 in D ...

What to call it: The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness? That was probably the least of Mozart’s concerns when he sat down to write this comic opera score in 1786. One of his main concerns had ...

Some of the finest orchestral musicians in the United States convened Friday evening on a humid athletic field in Del Mar to play symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven. The majority of the audience at ...

Gary Ruschman brings an admittedly eclectic musical background to his work as one of four soloists in the Mankato Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming concert that combines one piece each from two great ...