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Beethoven Everywhere
The music that's universal, the memory that's everlasting
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The original pop culture icon
Why you know Beethoven even if you don't think you do
4 Surprising Places You Can Hear Beethoven Music
From the Simpsons to the stars: Beethoven really is everywhere
12 Reasons To Listen To Beethoven
Fine tune your classical music small talk with this cheat sheet of fun facts
Beethoven Goes Pop!
From the Beatles to Alicia Keys: These tunes from pop, rock and jazz pay a tribute to Beethoven
The Movies That Have Beethoven In The Soundtrack
Light, Ludwig, Camera, Action!
Discover Beethoven in three movements
Learn why the composer just never gets old
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The Music
The notes that everyone knows
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2
The Man
Who was Ludwig van B.?
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3
The Joy
His everlasting impact
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Listen to some of the greats
Hear some of the very first Beethoven records on Shellac
"Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier!" From "Fidelio"
Tenor Franz Völkel, Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Alois Melichar
Symphony No. 5
Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Richard Strauss
Overture From "Egmont"
Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Otto Klemperer
Symphony No. 7
Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Carl Schuricht
Presto From Violin Sonata No. 9
Pianist Wilhelm Kempff And Violinist Wolfgang Kulenkampff
A Global Ode To Joy
Reimagining the world's tune for 2020
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#GlobalOdeToJoy with Tracy K.Smith
US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer prize winner Tracy K. Smith reads her "Ode to Joy" new interpretation
#GlobalOdeToJoy with Berlin's Konzerthausorchester
A wild ride through the symphonies
#GlobalOdeToJoy with Lang Lang
The pianist and his interpretation of the Ode to Joy
#GlobalOdeToJoy with the European Union Youth Orchestra
Sharing joyful moments from the road
#GlobalOdeToJoy with Daniel Hope
"There is only one Beethoven"
#GlobalOdeToJoy with Cologne's Guerzenich Orchestra
Dancing their way through the city
Even deafness didn't stop him
How he played on against all odds and inspired the deaf community
"Music Is Like A Dream...One I Cannot Hear"
Dancer Kassandra Wedel and Beethoven's iconic Fifth Symphony raise awareness for World Hearing Day
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What Beethoven Means To Deaf Artists
The composer's ambivalent inspiration
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Beethoven's Bonn
Explore the museum preserving the legacy
A Guided Tour of Beethoven House
Get a feel for his life as you walk around the house where he was born
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Beethoven in Bonn and in the eyes of his contemporaries
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Beethoven's Everyday life and the people surrounding him
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Beethoven's music and blows of fate
Beethoven: the remix
A sound that never gets old
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Bey-thoven: The Unofficial Mashup
The Sam Tsui x Carnegie Hall Ensemble Connect Unofficial Mashup
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Fate Remixed
Electro musician Christian Löffler remixes the historic Beethoven track
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Pastoral Meets Electro Music
Christian Löffler remixes the historic Beethoven track
The sounds that made Beethoven a legend
Now that you know the man, hear about his music...
The music
Punk's Not Dead...And Neither is Beethoven
Discover just what makes Beethoven's music so eternally fascinating
The music
Sound Familiar?
What the nine famous symphonies would be like if they were office colleagues
Hear from the experts
Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra talk about their favourite bars
Benjamin Morrison
Violin
Sophie Dervaux
Bassoon
Ödön Rácz
Double Bass
Ekaterina Frolova
Violin
Matthias Schorn
Clarinet
The forgotten story of the Kreutzer Sonata
Rediscovering the Black violin virtuoso George Polgreen Bridgetower
Hidden history
Honoring The Forgotten Master George Bridgetower
Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang perform Beethoven's "Bridgetower Sonata"
Hidden history
Why The Kreutzer Sonata Should Be Renamed
OBE Chi-chi Nwanoku introducing George Polgreen Bridgetower
Hidden history
Following in his Footsteps
Chi-chi Nwanoku and Randall Goosby in conversation about Bridgetower
Sharing a life with Beethoven
What the best among musicians think about Beethoven's music
Why Beethoven's Music Is Like a Rosetta Stone
Baritone Thomas Hampson on the first modern song cycle
Being Leonore
Soprano Karita Mattila on her Beethoven challenges
Unsettle, Surprise And Shock
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin on his lifelong relationship with Beethoven
Beethoven Treasures At La Scala
How the iconic opera house celebrates Beethoven
Bringing Beethoven to Brazil
How Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos advocated for his colleague
Young masters at work
Watch the young musicians of the Karajan Academy working on their Beethoven
Watch A Performance Of Symphonie No. 1
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Exploring A Violin Sonata In A Master Class
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
The Young Musicians On Beethoven
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Watch A Performance Of Symphonie No. 4
In Rehearsal
Exploring A Violin Sonata In A Master Class
Everyone's a critic
Reviews on Beethoven - now and then
What they said back then...
"A Great Deal of Disagreeable Eccentricity"
The best worst historic Beethoven reviews
....What they are saying now
"The Greatest Of All"
Artists today reflecting on Beethoven
Keep exploring Beethoven's work
The music
A notorious grump
The challenging nature and unlucky love life of the composer
Get to know Beethoven
Don't Stop Me Now
Deafness, loneliness and personal struggle didn't keep Beethoven from following his path
Get to know Beethoven
Not a Man To Settle?
A tumultuous family life at the search for Frau Beethoven
Get to know Beethoven
Ever Thine, Ever Mine, Ever Ours
Beethoven was never married - yet he wrote some of the most touching love letters
Get to know Beethoven
With A Little Help From My Friends
A composer's social network
What year was Beethoven born?
1770
Draft of the Beethoven Portrait with Missa Solemnis (Joseph Karl Stieler)
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1747
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Becoming Beethoven
How enlightenment and revolution influenced the composer's worldview
His early life
The Early Compositions
How the sound of Bonn became the sound of Beethoven
His early life
The Times, They Were A-Changing
Experiencing a society in transition
His early life
A Landmark Of Enlightenment
How the city of Bonn shaped its most famous son
The original freelancer
Learn about how Beethoven became the first freelancer in music history
Money, Money, Money
Although not poor, the composer had to be inventive to make a living