When great musicians play the classics, they often like to recreate the exact feel of a piece of music. But when playing Beethoven, many musicians completely disregard the tempo markings on his ...

The inventor of the metronome, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel persuaded Beethoven to write Wellington's Victory (Battle Symphony), but their friendship wasn't to last. Maelzel is known today as the inventor ...

Musicians have often found it difficult to keep pace with some of Beethoven's maddeningly fast symphonies. But could they be based on a mistake? Today's musical successes are subject to a simple yet ...

One of the things I love about music is that it is one of the few professions still around that is passed from one generation to the next in a master/apprentice model. Every classically trained ...

For most string quartets, the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven represents the chronological starting point when it comes to choosing repertoire. That's not the case for Toronto's Eybler Quartet, ...