Beethoven Everywhere: The Music — Google Arts & Culture

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Listen to some of the greats

Hear some of the very first Beethoven records on Shellac

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

What Beethoven Means To Deaf Artists

The composer's ambivalent inspiration

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

ExploreBeethoven in Bonn and in the eyes of his contemporaries

ExploreBeethoven's Everyday life and the people surrounding him

ExploreBeethoven's music and blows of fate

Beethoven at the Hollywood Bowl

The LA Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

The symphony Wagner praised for it's lively rhythms perfect for dance

Beethoven: the remix

A sound that never gets old

Watch & Listen

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

Watch & Listen

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 talk about their favourite bars

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

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

Discover more...

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The Joy

His everlasting impact

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In collaboration with

Listen to some of the greats

Hear some of the very first Beethoven records on Shellac

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

What Beethoven Means To Deaf Artists

The composer's ambivalent inspiration

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

Beethoven at the Hollywood Bowl

The LA Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

The symphony Wagner praised for it's lively rhythms perfect for dance

Beethoven: the remix

A sound that never gets old

Bey-thoven: The Unofficial Mashup

The Sam Tsui x Carnegie Hall Ensemble Connect Unofficial Mashup

Fate Remixed

Electro musician Christian Löffler remixes the historic Beethoven track

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...

Punk's Not Dead...And Neither is Beethoven

Discover just what makes Beethoven's music so eternally fascinating

Sound Familiar?

What the nine famous symphonies would be like if they were office colleagues

Hear from the experts

Members of the Vienna Philharmonic talk about their favourite bars

The forgotten story of the Kreutzer Sonata

Rediscovering the Black violin virtuoso George Polgreen Bridgetower

Honoring The Forgotten Master George Bridgetower

Randall Goosby and Zhu Wang perform Beethoven's "Bridgetower Sonata"

Why The Kreutzer Sonata Should Be Renamed

OBE Chi-chi Nwanoku introducing George Polgreen Bridgetower

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

Everyone's a critic

Reviews on Beethoven - now and then

"A Great Deal of Disagreeable Eccentricity"

The best worst historic Beethoven reviews

"The Greatest Of All"

Artists today reflecting on Beethoven

Discover more...

The Joy

His everlasting impact

The Man

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