When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I watched Beethoven all the time growing up. Whether it was at home or at a friend's sleepover, I ...

Music lovers who are familiar with Jan Swafford’s earlier biographies of Brahms and Charles Ives will need no further incitement to read this mammoth but compelling biography of a composer arguably ...

The biggest movie star of the early '90s? Arguably, it was this massive St. Bernard who wreaked hilarious havoc on the Newton home in "Beethoven." Released 25 years ago this week (on April 3, 1992), ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer. As a crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. By turns clunky, corny and downright brilliant, Abel Gance’s 1936 biopic on Ludwig Van Beethoven is never less than fascinating — ...

Following Jan Swafford through the thousand-plus pages of his new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is hardly as exhilarating as listening to the music of the peerless composer. But the stately rhythm ...

Ba ba ba bum... Wait, no. That's Beethoven's Fifth. Everywhere you turn, somebody is quoting Beethoven. It may not be as famous as the Fifth, but you're probably more familiar with Beethoven's ...