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“Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Eighth,” on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at 2:00 pm at the Bradley Symphony Center. This afternoon concert will feature Milwaukee violinist ...

Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is a near-universal Western cultural marker, a sweeping musical masterpiece marked by its glorious and irresistible “Ode to Joy” choral section. Even people who have no ...

‘There are and there will be thousands of princes,’ wrote Beethoven to Prince Lichnowsky ... various others contributed to his early musical study of the violin, organ, piano and horn. His first work ...

This is the anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Beethoven is renowned as a great composer. Many people across the world know his name, that he wrote his best music after he became ...

Now twenty-six, he was famous for his technical skill and his amazing memory. Beethoven wrote the violin concerto specially for the event, and quickly, it seems. The composer had spent some of the ...