Ludwig Van Beethoven performed Symphony No. 5 for the first time in public in Vienna on this day in history, Dec. 22, 1808. It has become perhaps the world's most famous musical composition.

Western Piedmont Symphony's 2024-2025 season continues with a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on November 9, 2024. This concert showcases the iconic first four notes of Beethoven's ...

André de Ridder conducts the NZSO in two of Beethoven’s most dramatic works written around the same time, both in C minor - ...

New Jersey Symphony has revealed its 2025–26 season, Music Director Xian Zhang’s 10th season with the Symphony. Learn more about upcoming programming and see how to purchase tickets.

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is quite simply the most famous piece of classical music ever written. The opening four notes, commonly referred to as “fate knocking at the door,” are easily ...

The Hartford Symphony Orchestra entrusts internationally renowned conductor Gerard Schwarz with two Beethoven classics for their upcoming Masterworks concert.

That opening motif of Beethoven’s stunning Fifth Symphony is often referred to as “fate knocking,” but in TSO Music Director Gomez’s hands it was more like fate rapping on the door with a ...

Maybe you know Beethoven's Fifth Symphony by heart. But you might never have heard it like this. On Friday, the Mercury ensemble will take the beloved symphony, long the property of thundering ...

Consciously or not, the management and artistic staff of the Houston Symphony couldn't have picked a better work than Beethoven's Fifth Symphony to kick off its 2008-09 season.

CPR Classical presents the Colorado Symphony's opening weekend concerts of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Also on the program is pianist Hélène Grimaud.

Remarkably, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 destroyed about 20% of cancer cells in just a few days, while leaving healthy cells unaffected.