Nicholas Kitchen, the Borromeo Quartet's first violinist, shares his thoughts about Beethoven's "Great Fugue." The members of the Borromeo Quartet are regular visitors to WGBH. To hear and see them ...

In 1826, a year before he died, Beethoven did something so unfathomable that it ranks as one of the greatest mysteries in his story: he made a compromise. His publisher, concerned by the response to ...

A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby's auctioneers said. Sotheby's described the manuscript, discovered in a Pennsylvania ...

LONDON – A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby's auctioneers said. Sotheby's described the manuscript, discovered in a ...

LONDON — A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” sold for $1.72 million to an anonymous buyer, Sotheby’s auctioneers said. Sotheby’s described the manuscript, discovered in a ...

Displayed to the public at the Palmer Theological Seminary for just one afternoon yesterday, the 80-page manuscript, dated 1826, is a seminal find for scholars of Beethoven and classical music.

Beethoven’s late quartets are among the composer’s most enigmatic, profound and personal masterpieces. The six movements of No.13 encompass a journey through myriad philosophies: introversion, folksy ...

Beethoven was sitting in a bar after the 1826 premiere of his String Quartet No. 13 when some buddies sat down next to him. The final movement, the Fuge, was a little hard to digest, they told the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. LONDON (AP) – A working manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge” ...

(London-AP) December 1, 2005 - Ludwig van Beethoven has been dead more than 175 years, and his works are still top sellers. The latest proof: A working manuscript of Beethoven's "Grosse Fuge" just ...

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