Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste is set to release his first solo piano album, titled “Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1),” on Nov. 15. This album is a unique blend of classical and ...

In a little-trafficked corner of the Web, a pair of classical music enthusiasts has spent half a decade obsessively re-creating hundreds of obscure pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven. Mark Zimmer, a tax ...

Besides being a Cabinet Minister, a Deputy, a party chief and Mayor of Lyon, Edouard Herriot, thrice Premier of France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, ...

A new Brigham Young University study shows that 5-month-old babies can distinguish an upbeat tune, such as “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, from a lineup of gloomier compositions. By age ...

This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. "When you listen for ...

A happy birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the biggest giants of classical music, born Dec. 16, 1770. (He died March 26, 1827. An old joke: a fan opens Beethoven's grave in Vienna and sees him .

"Music," Ludwig van Beethoven said, "is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." Transcending dogma, creed, culture and even language, music has the power to elevate the soul as well ...

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Last summer, the meme “Beethoven was ...