EditorialGustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic through works by Schubert, at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, March 17, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialBernard Haitink conducts the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Mass., July 9, 2006. (Michael Lutch/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Eliot Gardiner leads the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in a cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies at Carnegie Hall in New York on Feb. 18, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialA view of the Theater an der Wien, where Beethoven premiered his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, in Vienna on Feb. 7, 2020. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)
EditorialThe conductor John Eliot Gardiner rehearses Beethoven's symphonies with the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in London, Feb. 1, 2020. (Kalpesh Lathigra/The New York Times)
EditorialSymphony no. 3 in E flat, op. 55, ‘Eroica’. Copy by John Sterland; 1807. [Symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven, in the hand of John Sterland]. [Royal Philharmonic Society archive]. 1807. Source: RPS MS 2 f.161.
EditorialWoman walking on street watches man engaging dog in play with broom. Street scene; man with top hat and cane. A fashion plate. Victorian style and history. . Kleptomania. London, [1863]. Kleptomania. [Song, begins: "Of course you know".] (Symphonies a...
EditorialGustav Mahler, Czech born, austrian composer, composed mainly songs and symphonies. Became conductor of Vienna State Opera and New York Philharmonic Society.
EditorialHector Berlioz (1803-1869) conducting one of his symphonies. Satirical print depicting listeners fleeing the noise. Caption says: " A concert in 1846. ".