Composed between 1804 and 1808, Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is one of the most famous pieces by the composer - and in classical music as a whole. The opening of Ludwig Van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony ...

In the third episode of The 5th, we explore how Beethoven’s symphony was used to generate the strict culture of classical music — and the politics that undergird those norms of behavior.

as no other single piece of music has been able to equal, to triumph. With the Fifth, Beethoven invented the victory symphony, and everyone has understandably wanted a piece of that. In 1943 ...

"The French, too, adopted Beethoven's 5th Symphony as an icon of solidarity and resistance," writes Music and the Holocaust, a website published by London-based Jewish education network ORT.

The opening four notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 are the most iconic in all of music. There’s an apocryphal story that Beethoven called those four notes “fate knocking at the door.” ...

The opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony are iconic, but Alexander Shelley promises that the piece has much more in store. The next artistic and music director of the Pacific Symphony ...

Ludwig van Beethoven’s well-known Symphony No. 5 was performed by the PSO to cap off a two-hour program of tough-minded music that also reached toward brief moments of hard-won tranquility.