Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was born into a musical family, learnt the piano and violin, and was performing publicly at the age of just 8. Beethoven was a brilliant keyboard ...

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 when he made a mistake. Young Ludwig was 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 ...

Ludwig van Beethoven ... to know. Beethoven tried out lots of inventions and devices to help him hear, such as using a big brass ear trumpet and a contraption fixed inside his piano which he ...

TwoSet Violin - Brett Yang and Eddy Chen - released two more new videos in their B²TSM (comeback? farewell?) series: one ...

NPR's Eric Deggans speaks with musician and composer Jon Batiste about his new album, "Beethoven Blues," in which he riffs on classical favorites.