A team of researchers tested Beethoven’s DNA for beat synchronization ability, a trait related to musicality. While Beethoven’s polygenic score was unremarkable compared to the general population, the ...

Beethoven’s unfinished symphony is set to be completed by artificial intelligence, in the run-up to celebrations around the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. A computer is set to complete ...

James Jolly and Rob Cowan discuss Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, the art of interpretation and how the great recordings of the past century compare, including extracts from Carlos Kleiber, Herbert von ...

Musical genius Ludwig van Beethoven was 44 years old when he gradually began to lose his hearing. However, that did not impede the German pianist's creative spirit, and he went on to compose the ...

The lives of the great composers continue to fascinate music lovers — though none, it could be argued, exert quite the fascination of Beethoven, who continues to attract biographers and commentators, ...