The Beethoven House in the western German city of Bonn has purchased an important original manuscript by composer Ludwig van Beethoven with the help of public and private donors. The Cultural ...

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Audiences at the big concert venues of Manhattan — Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Met Opera — are often unenthusiastic or even sleepy, what my Sicilian family would call mezza morta: half-dead.

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On April 8-9, the Takács Quartet brought to a rousing close its cycle of the complete Beethoven string quartets. Begun last October, this Beethoven cycle comprised six concerts, all in the excellent ...