John Eliot Gardiner will lead his period-instrument Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in Beethoven’s nine symphonies in five concerts at Carnegie Hall, from Feb. 19-24, before performances in ...

Can a historically informed performance of music written 200 years ago deliver an entirely authentic sound experience given the absence of recordings? Obviously not. Then again, historical replication ...

While earning a master’s degree in piano at the Peabody Institute, Matthew Bengtson learned about early keyboard instruments — including the fortepiano popular during the time of Mozart and Beethoven.

It seems fitting that Beethoven composed his First Symphony at the dawn of a new century, 1799-1800, for even contemporaries realized that his symphonies changed the conception of the genre. Beethoven ...

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Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: I. Allegro con brio Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: II. Tema con Variazioni Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1: III ...