One of the best Beethoven-related sites around is the Unheard Beethoven site.  The people there have cataloged pretty much every Beethoven ...

The theatrical mask contemplated by a putto on the Beethoven monument by Kaspar von Zumbusch (Vienna, 1880) commemorates Beethoven...

One of the most unusual instruments Beethoven ever wrote for (and that's saying something considering he wrote for Panharmonicon, cannon...

Last Sunday the film "The King's Speech" won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2010.  One LvB-related news item which has ...

I've posted a few times before ( here and here ) about how appropriate I think Beethoven's music would be for modern film scores.  A...

(Christa Ludwig in Fidelio conducted by Klemperer, 1962) I posted about Beethoven's only opera in the past but today being a weekend...

One of my favorite less-famous choral "numbers" by Beethoven is the "Chorus of Dervishes" from "The Ruins of Athe...

http://www.lvbeethoven.com/Cartes/Cards09Others.html From the Wiener Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung (No. 39, 1846) on Beethoven's meeting w...

Beethoven only composed one complete ballet, "The Creatures of Prometheus".  It's the only orchestral work of his that has a h...

Since yesterday was about Beethoven's music in today's movies, how did he actually use music in his own movie?  They didn't have...

One of the things I love about Beethoven's music is that it feels so timeless.  By that, I mean that B's music feels like it could f...

(www.cafepress.co.uk) Octet for 2 Oboes, Clarinets, Horns & Bassoons Op.103 (1792) String Quintet in E flat major Op.4 (arr of Wind ...