Love Letters of Great Men and Women : From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day

Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Orchard Paperbacks)
Relive the musical sensation the Venetian musician experienced when he composed the Ninth Symphony near the end of his life. In the form of letters, the book tells a fictional story of...

Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance,...
The string quartets of Ludwig van Beethoven, the signal achievement of “that noble genre,” have rewarded the engagement of scholars, performers, and audiences for almost two hundred...

The Famous Meet Gory Ends In 'How They Croaked'
In her illustrated book for middle-grade readers, How They Croaked, Georgia Bragg chronicles the disgusting and bloody deaths of 19 famous figures, from Beethoven (who exploded with pus) to...

Jane Fonda Is Academic In '33 Variations'
Actress Jane Fonda is back on stage as a musicologist out to solve a musical mystery in the play 33 Variations. Fonda talks about the role and explains why she's "smitten" with...

Bytes and Beethoven
The Borromeo String Quartet has embraced digital advances to prepare and perform classical works.

Valetudo: Art and Healing in Provence
The School of Visual Arts (SVA) is hosting a new exhibition that pays tribute to Vincent Van Gogh and the inspiration he found during his stay at the famed Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in...

After Mozart’s Death, an Endless Coda
What killed Mozart? A review of proposed causes has organized scores of theories into five distinct categories.