In fact his family was of Dutch descent ... Fired by ambitions to turn his gifted son into a second Mozart, Johann van Beethoven would keep him slaving at the piano all night, raining blows on him ...

The musical texts of this new complete edition of Beethoven's works are edited by Christine Siegert on behalf of the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn under use of all available sources and the latest scholarly ...

Although there is no definite masonic record for Ludwig van Beethoven, there are strong grounds for believing that he was a mason. "Many of his friends and fellow musicians were masons and there are ...

The 32 piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven together ... led to a lawsuit, family tribulations, and extreme stress, which exacerbated Beethoven’s already serious bouts of ill health.

The Sverris saga, which tells the story of the real-life king Sverre Sigurdsson, describes how in 1197 an army of invaders ...

Scientists explored Beethoven’s ailments, linked remains to a Norse saga, uncovered colonial secrets, peeked inside an ...

There is hardly a better way to approach Ludwig van Beethoven than through his piano concertos Beethovens own instrument was the piano and in his improvisations which made him the darling of the ...

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Cartoonist Michael Leunig has died, aged 79. Leunig passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Thursday. A post on his ...

Cartoonist Michael Leunig has died, aged 79. Leunig passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Thursday. A post on his ...